Complex context rules [Cancel]

Steve Rickaby srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 7 09:03:35 PDT 2006


At 16:54 +0100 7/4/06, Steve Rickaby wrote:

>I am in the situation in which I want an element to be able to check whether its *parent* is the first element of *its* parent.
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>Put another way, element A needs to be able to check whether A's parent is the first element of A's grandparent.
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>The on-line struct dev guide (page 135 in FrameMaker 7 version) seems to imply that context rules of the form:
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>If context is: Parent {first} < GrandParent, or
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>If context is: Parent {after Grandparent} < * < SomeOtherAncestor
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>are valid, but I can't get these rule to trigger. Are there any pitfalls here?

I can answer my own question - yes, there are: don't ignore intervening <TEXT>, which will cause the {first} or {after} rules to fail.

I am going down with some sort of bug: that's my excuse for muddle-headedness.
-- 
Steve



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