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From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:53:52 -0700
At 10:22 AM 4/10/98 -0500, Reynolds, Gregg wrote:
>Jade does implement the query language; it's the transformation language
>that is not supported.  However, Jade supports a number of very useful
>extensions to the standard that make if a very powerful tool for
>transformations anyway. 

What Jade doesn't support is the query *feature* of the style language,
which means that you can't use query construction rules. However, you can
get around this by replacing the normal construction rules with a single
default rule that uses a COND expression to apply queries to the current
node, e.g.:

(default
  (cond
   ((query-function-one (current-node))
     (make x))
   ((query-function-two (current-node))
     (make y))
   (else
     (process-children)))

It's ham fisted, but it works. I don't know how efficient it is (probably
not very).

Cheers,

Eliot
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