XLAT Parsing error.

[Alan DeKok]

Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> alternate values arnt being parsed correctly in xlat strings involving 
> modules.

  It doesn't work.  It's not intended to work, because ":-" is a
perfectly valid string to pass to a module.  ":-" only works for attributes.

> What would be really cool is if one query returned a null string a 
> second query could be executed as an alternate, but i'm not sure how 
> hard that would be to do.

  That's probably not hard.

  %{%{sql:foo}:-%{sql:bar}}

 It's easier to parse.  It looks slightly more complicated to look at,
but not too bad.

  Alan DeKok.