Re: partial evaluation / removing directives

Well, I did not get into the details, but the idea would be to replace the
ASTIfStatement with a sequence of AST nodes that would output the "#IF"
text followed by the result of rewriting the children, etc. followed by the
"#END" text.
I think the SimpleNode does not have a particularly friendly public
interface to facilitate this kind of thing. I remember I had to resort to
using reflection and accessing protected/private members directly.

Alex


As for the AST rewrite idea, if it was possible to "Burn down" nodes to
> their corresponding text something like that would work, However, wouldnt'
> that then possibly miss additional child elements in that AST tree? For
> instance a clause in an if statement which had a resourceBundle reference?
>  I'm not too familiar with ASTs (been years since I dealt with those at
> school), maybe I can look at it a bit more today.
>
> thanks,
> Pete
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