I have, at long last, overcome my disinclination against spreadsheets and played around a bit.<br><br>As one of the incentives (perhaps the main one) for this kind of rule authoring appears to be a "syntax" cushioning by spreadsheet entries, I feel that additional simplifications might be appreciated. Therefore, I have modified some classes in org.drools.decisiontable.parser, to achieve the following, in the area of RuleSet entries:<br>
<ul><li>All entries are now repeatable, either by adding more cells to the right of "import" than just one (with a comma-separated list) or by writing more that one "Import" row.</li><li>Same for "Variables", "Functions" and "Queries".<br>
</li><li>All tags ("Import",...) are case insensitive and immune against leading and trailing spaces.</li><li>Some user errors don't cause NPE; they throw an exception with an explanatory message</li></ul>Opinions, please, and should I just release this, or would someone care to have a look and test it?<br>
-W<br><br><br><br>