Question about combining multiple conditions #4882

danmichaelo · 2020-06-23T08:58:40Z

Hope this is the right place to ask questions, CONTRIBUTING.md seemed to suggest it is.

I'm working on an update to universitetet-i-oslo-rettsvitenskap.csl and struggle a bit with combinations of conditions. I'm also quite new to CSL. My goal is to format the locator in a special way if (locator is "section" OR "paragraph") AND (type is "legislation" OR "legal_case" OR "bill").

This matches too much:

<if locator="section paragraph" type="legislation legal_case" match="any">

(for instance locator=section, type=book)

While this matches too little / nothing(?):

<if locator="section paragraph" type="legislation legal_case" match="all">

Is there a way I can express this without resorting to multiple levels of s and having to repeat the <else> section? Here's my full macro at the moment:

  <macro name="locator">
    <choose>
      <if locator="section paragraph" type="legislation legal_case">
        <text variable="locator" prefix=" § "/>
      </if>
      <else>
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <label variable="locator" form="short"/>
          <text variable="locator"/>
        </group>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>

adam3smith · 2020-06-23T13:14:55Z

(I'd generally put "how to" questions on our discourse forum discourse.citationstyles.org/ but it doesn't matter terribly).
There's no great solution to this, no; you can't combine AND and OR in a single condition, so some repetition is unavoidable.

I think the shortest version is

  <macro name="locator">
    <choose>
      <if type="legislation legal_case" match="none">
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <label variable="locator" form="short"/>
          <text variable="locator"/>
        </group>
      </if>
     <else-if locator="section paragraph" match="any">
       <text variable="locator" prefix=" § "/>
      </else-if>
      <else>
        <group delimiter=" ">
          <label variable="locator" form="short"/>
          <text variable="locator"/>
        </group>
      </else>
    </choose>
  </macro>

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Question about combining multiple conditions #4882

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