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Re: Yet more confusion over strings and objects in Lisp.
- From: "Kogule, Ryo" <aqua_dabbler at mac dot com>
- To: DocBook-APPS <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:33:42 +0900
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Yet more confusion over strings and objects in Lisp.
On 6/25/02 2:12, "Gre7g Luterman" <gre7g@wolfhome.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry. Perhaps my earlier question got lost. By "correct Lisp
> code" I mean that the above block does not work.
Oops, I'm sorry.
> As I mentioned
> before, the problem is the:
>
> (if (string=? (nav-context elemnode) "")
>
> part. (nav-context elemnode) returns an object, not a string. So
> how do I compare it against ""? I'm sure there must be a way, but I
> have no idea. The only other similar comparison I know is node-list-
> empty? and that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> Does anyone know how to compare whether (nav-context elemnode) will
> return text?
Sorry again. I'm not sure what you really want to do. Do you really want a
sosofo here?
(if (nav-context? elemnode)
doesn't suffice?
Regards,
Kogulé, Ryo