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From: "Javier Arauz (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (SCXML-69) JEXL built-in Data() function cannot
 return a reference to a whole <data> element
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JEXL built-in Data() function cannot return a reference to a whole <data> element
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                 Key: SCXML-69
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCXML-69
             Project: Commons SCXML
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 0.6, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 1.0
            Reporter: Javier Arauz
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 0.8


There is no way with JEXL of building a Data() expression that refers to a whole <data> element, only to one of its children.

Using standard W3C SCXML it is possible to refer to a whole <data> element, e.g.:

    <data name="myFoo"><content>Hi there!</content></data>
    <data name="foo" expr="'bar'"/>
    <assign location="/foo" expr="/myFoo/content"/>

In theory, after running the above SCXML the 'foo' data element changes from value 'bar' to 'Hi there!'.

There is no equivalent to the above SCXML using JEXL, since no Data() expression yields the root <data> element. This has the side effect that data elements as 'foo' above are effectively constants, since once defined there's no way of changing them.

The solution to this problem would consist of implementing a new method in class org.apache.commons.scxml.Builtin that takes just two arguments: the namespaces in use and the name of the <data> element, and returns an org.w3c.Node containing whatever that <data> element contains. Then you could write:

    <data name="myFoo"><content>Hi there!</content></data>
    <data name="foo" expr="'bar'"/>
    <assign location="Data(foo)" expr="Data(myFoo, 'content'"/>




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