Re: SGML: using attributes for dictionary style running h/f

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I stand corrected. I tested it in V5.1.1, and it didn't work.
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At 06:26 PM 11/29/99 -0500, Lester C. Smalley wrote:
><BIG SNIP>
>> But, you cannot precede an elemtag in the above expression with +, to get
>> what you are looking for. That is:
>> 
>>         <$attribute[hdrtxt:+,Section]>
>> 
>> is not a legal FM+SGML expression.>
>Are you sure Dan?
>
>The constuct <$attribute[ATTR_NAME:+,ELEMENT]> does indeed work for me in
>FM+SGML 5.5.6 (both Unix and Windows versions) to extract the content of
>the "ATTR_NAME" attribute of the last "ELEMENT" element on the page.
>
>In actual use, this is in a single Running H/F varible defined as:
>
>    <$attribute[Label:Para0]> -- <$attribute[Label:+,Para0]>
>
>(where -- is an em-dash)
>
>to extract the numbered label from the first and last top level paragraph
>elements in a  document.  And it works for me.
>
>It looks like this: " 1.3 -- 1.14 " in the header of the page.
>
>Maybe I'm just lucky and it shouldn't, but I'm not complaining.
>
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