rules from an xml file

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:42:05 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> 
>> jonny wrote:
>> 
>>> <rules>
>>>    <rule01>
>>>       <if>
>>> <or>
>>> <lessthan par_1="glicemyAtMorning" par_2="80"/>
>>> <lessthan par_1="glicemyAtNight" par_2="80"/>
>>> <and>
>>> <greaterthan par_1="glicemyAtMorning" par_2="0"/>
>>> <or>
>>> <equalto par_1="urine" par_2="0"/>
>>> <equalto par_1="urine" par_2="+/-"/>
>>> <equalto par_1="urine" par_2="+"/>
>>> </or>
>>> </and>
>>> </or>
>>> </if>
>>>         <then>
>>>            <sendmessage>Something is wrong!</sendmessage>
>>>         </then>
>>>    </rule01>
>>>    <rule02> ...  </rule02>
>>>    <rule03> ...   </rule03>
>>> </rules>
>>> […]
>> […]
>> Just a note: the use of "par_X" as attributes is unfortunate, to say the
>> least. It doesn't allow for easy argument swapping, can cause troubles
>> because you delete one attribute and miss renaming the others, and in
>> general it's not good design to have arbitrary numbers of parameters.
> 
> Quite the same is true for numbers in tag names.  If you (the OP) need to
> number the rules better use an attribute for the numbers.

I meant of course

<equalto>
  <param>0</param>
  <param>+</param>
</equalto>

Diez