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Hi,
We're trying to make sense of multi-rules in Henshin and what
their exact semantics are. We've built some fairly complex rules
which are meant to match all occurrences of a particular pattern
and make a consistent set of modifications to this set in one go.
Below, I list some questions we have come across, but haven't
really found any responses to. Is there a more detailed tutorial /
documentation document somewhere that we just haven't found yet or
could someone help us understand what is going on here?
- Multi-nodes seem to be optional. That is, if a multi-node
cannot be matched, the rule will still be matched and executed.
We need to say that the multi-node needs to be matched at least
once. We have tried adding a PAC using a
<<requires>> patterns, but that just seems to have
stopped the rule from matching at all. We have also tried "loop
unwinding" the multi-node once, but that seems to require
duplicating all the pattern and all the changes that go with it,
which becomes quite cumbersome and creates additional problems
(see below). What is the recommended way to go about this?
- We are a bit unclear about how multi-nodes connect with simple
nodes, especially where <<create>> elements are
present. For example, if we want to say that all matches of a
particular multi-node need to be connected to the same newly
created object vs each one being connected to its own newly
created object vs each one being connected to an object to be
(possibly uniquely) selected object from the matches of another
multi-node. Is there a discussion somewhere, which of these
can/cannot be done and how they can be done?
Any pointers would be most useful :-)
Many thanks,
Steffen and Kinga
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Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler AHEA
Senior Lecturer
King's College London
Department of Informatics
Email szschaler@xxxxxxx
Phone +44 (020) 7848 1513
WWW http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/
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