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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Yet more confusion over strings and objects in Lisp.

From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: Gre7g Luterman <gre7g@wolfhome.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:52:26 -0400

/ Gre7g Luterman <gre7g@wolfhome.com> was heard to say:
| (if (string=? (nav-context elemnode) "")
|
| part.  (nav-context elemnode) returns an object, not a string.  So 

If you're trying to test whether or not nav-context generates text, use

  (if (nav-context?)
     ...

(nav-context ...) returns a sosofo and those are by definition opaque.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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