Re: Making Aliases Conditional

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Hi,

Basically, see what Akira said.  That's what I meant.

behdad

On 12/01/2011 08:43 PM, Infinality wrote:
> Thanks for your response, Behdad.
> 
> So, you're saying that it's possible to do this somehow, but not in the way
> I'm trying to do it.  By "sugar" do you mean somehow assigning an arbitrary
> value and then using that to alias?  I have searched quite a bit, so I'd be
> grateful is someone could provide me a simple example to work from.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Erik
> 
> 
> On 12/01/2011 07:37 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I know aliases don't work in that situation.  But aliases are just sugar for
>> match/edit sequences.  If you expand it to what it means, it should work
>> conditionally.  Please look around for the details.  Or someone else may
>> offer it.
>>
>> behdad
>>
>> On 11/27/2011 02:04 PM, Infinality wrote:
>>> (apologies if this is a duplicate email)
>>>
>>> I am wondering if it is possible to make alias definitions (and other things?)
>>> conditional on some sort of test with a<match>  or something else.  For
>>> example:
>>>
>>> <match target="font">
>>> <test name="rendering_style" qual="any">
>>> <string>style1</string>
>>> <string>style2</string>
>>> </test>
>>> <alias>
>>> <family>serif</family>
>>> <prefer>
>>> <family>Font Name 1</family>
>>> <family>Font Name 2</family>
>>> </prefer>
>>> </alias>
>>> </match>
>>>
>>> The goal here would be to only assign the alias stuff when the value for
>>> rendering_style is style1 or style2.  In practice, I've confirmed that this
>>> block of xml will in fact /always/ assign the alias, regardless of the test.
>>> I see that the definition for<match>  requires a<test>  and<edit>, not a
>>> <test>  and<something else>, so it's not surprising that it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> But, is there a way to accomplish what I want?  And within a single file?
>>> (i.e. not having to manually split and do symlinks)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erik
>>>
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