On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> (2) add conditional code to the xml. which is
> not really something native to the xml "style",
> so...
This would be the conditional node I have been threatening to write. The
syntax would be:
<if cond=value>
.
.
</if>
Where conf would be any useful type of test. So far, I have envisioned 2
arch
For this test, the architecutre as identified by uname(2)
would be compared against the value, which would be a string
such as "i386" or"ia64".
fexists
For this test, value contains the name of a file, whose
existence is tested.
I suppose some form of negation of these condition would also make sense.
Alternatively, the syntax could look like:
<if conf>
<case value>
.
.
</case>
<case value>
.
.
</case>
<default>
.
.
</default>
</if>
Which would provide more of a switch() type functionallity.
Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Standards Group
Lead Developer, Written Specification Linux Standard Base
