[dev-context] Storing and retrieving two-pass data

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Sun Apr 22 12:03:51 CEST 2012


On 20-4-2012 17:30, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-04-19 Wolfgang Schuster<schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> thanks for  the answer. In the first place I also  came up  with a
> similar solution  to yours. But  that's what I meant  by ”manually
> counting” and  wanted to avoid.  Apparently I missed  the obvious,
> there is no special magic needed:
>
> % doesn't seem to be necessary
> % \definedataset [test]
>
> \setdataset [test] [foo] [foo=first]
> \setdataset [test] [foo] [foo=second]
>
> \setdataset [test] [bar] [bar=first]
> \setdataset [test] [bar] [bar=second]
> \setdataset [test] [bar] [bar=third]
>
> \starttext
> 	foo is: \datasetvariable{test}{foo}{foo}\crlf
> 	bar is: \datasetvariable{test}{bar}{bar}
> \stoptext
>
> Wikified:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Key_Value_Assignments#Two-pass_data

Maybe you should add a note about \detupdatase[test][delay=yes] as 
option. In that case a node is injected and the dataset is extended with 
'realpage', 'index' and 'order' information with the realpage being 
synchronized when the node is flushed.

Hans


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