RE: design -- ASSERT(field is a container)


Subject: RE: design -- ASSERT(field is a container)
From: Justin Bradford (justin@ukans.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 10:23:44 CST


> RTF also supports fields in fields, for example nested IF clauses:
>
> { IF { MERGEFIELD Name } = "xx" "yy" "zz" }
>
> How should this be supported?

Yikes. The only solution I can think of would be:

<field type="if">
 <item1>
        <field type="mergefield">
                <item1>Name</item1>
        </field>
 </item1>
 <item2>==</item2>
 <item3>xx</item3>
 etc.
</field>

And the field object would have to be able to hold text, numbers, or
other field objects.

Justin



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