Re: Parameters for rules?

Sounds like a very useful feature to me.

Phil



On 20 Apr 2012, at 05:03, "Yves Savourel" <ysavourel@enlaso.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> One thing I've noticed during the past years working with ITS 1.0 is
that, quite often, having a way to use 'variables' in ITS rules would have
been a lot more efficient having to create multiple ITS files.
>
> For example, imagine some rules that say:
>
> In file 1: <its:translateRule selector="//*[@stage=LevelA]"
translate="no"/>
>
> In file 2: <its:translateRule selector="//*[@stage=LevelB]"
translate="no"/>
>
> When the calling tool could instead use a single file with:
>
> <its:translateRule selector="//*[@stage=${LevelValue}]" translate="no"/>
>
> Or something similar.
>
> I imagine that with the new data categories, this kind of construct would
be even more handy than in ITS 1.0.
>
> This is not a possible requirement for a new data category, but rather an
enhancement of the overall mechanism. So a few questions:
>
> 1) Would having such variable mechanism (with possibly default values in
the rule file) be useful?
>
> 2) Is it ok to contemplate changes like this to the basic ITS mechanism,
or are they out-of-scope?
>
> 3) If this is something we'd like to include, where do we capture this in
the requirements document?
>
> Cheers,
> -yves
>
>
>
>


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