A list-valued attribute's declaration is one of:
When the attribute is a list-valued attribute, a particular item in the list can be accessed by item number with a [...]
phrase. For example:
attribute col-w[3]
The selector must not be greater than the number of items in the attribute value. The number of items in a list-valued attribute can be determined by using the number of
operator.
Determining the system, public identifier, or notation of an entity name used in an ENTITIES attribute requires the use of the [...]
) phrase.
List-valued attributes differ from shelves in the following ways:
[...]
) phrase, the entire value will be selected as if it were a single string without each token being separated by a space. (A different character can be used to separate the values by specifying it in the delimiter
declaration.)
has key
operator is not permitted on a list-valued attribute.
The following is an example of how a repeat over
can be used to iterate over the values in a list-valued attribute:
element e local integer attribute-value-length variable ... repeat over attribute-value-length & attribute multi set attribute-value-length to length of attribute multi again