I think that goes back to an attempt to let people use different words/languages without i18n - so probably a bad idea. <div><br></div><div>Unless people object, I propose getting rid of that behaviour and cleaning it up to be keywords - AS LONG AS if they put in a non valid keyword, the error shows a list of what *is* valid so they can then correct it. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Wolfgang Laun <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wolfgang.laun@gmail.com">wolfgang.laun@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Michael,<br><br>I just discovered ActionType.addNewActionType, where the code tries to follow some<br>(now) completely undocumented principle, where columns can be identified by single<br>
letters, the first one of the action type. This is in conflict with the documentation,<br>
where only full-fledged keywords are permitted.<br><br>There are some undocumented keywords, e.g., DESCRIPTION. Using this results<br>in a duration attribute (which is deprecated anyway). This can be fixed, but then<br>the description is entered &quot;as is&quot;; it should have a leading &#39;#&#39;.<br>

<br>Clear out all undocumented things? Or fix them properly and document them?<br><br>What is it to be?<br><font color="#888888">-W</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 November 2010 23:33, Michael Neale <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michael.neale@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.neale@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">nice work.. <div>yes &quot;syntax cushioning&quot; is the best term I have heard for this. </div>

<div><br></div><div>I am sure your enhancements would be welcome. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Wolfgang Laun <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wolfgang.laun@gmail.com" target="_blank">wolfgang.laun@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>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 &quot;syntax&quot; 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 &quot;import&quot; than just one (with a comma-separated list) or by writing more that one &quot;Import&quot; row.</li><li>Same for &quot;Variables&quot;, &quot;Functions&quot; and &quot;Queries&quot;.<br>



</li><li>All tags (&quot;Import&quot;,...) are case insensitive and immune against leading and trailing spaces.</li><li>Some user errors don&#39;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>


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