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How to avoid

Unhammer at 15:19, 13 December 2016

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Warning (753): Paths to rule 5 blocked by rule 3.

from apertium-preprocess-transfer (or make), then you can check out the relevant rules by doing e.g. ..."

2016-12-13T15:11:16Z

Created page with "If you get <pre>Warning (753): Paths to rule 5 blocked by rule 3.</pre> from apertium-preprocess-transfer (or make), then you can check out the relevant rules by doing e.g. ..."

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If you get

<pre>Warning (753): Paths to rule 5 blocked by rule 3.</pre>

from apertium-preprocess-transfer (or make), then you can check out the relevant rules by doing e.g.
<pre>
$ xmllint --xpath '//rule[3]' apertium-dan-nor.nor-dan.t1x
$ xmllint --xpath '//rule[5]' apertium-dan-nor.nor-dan.t1x
</pre>
(exchanging apertium-dan-nor.nor-dan.t1x for your transfer file)

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@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 ==How to avoid==
-If you have a rule for nom.prop.gen followed by one for nom.gen, defined as
+If you have e.g. a rule for nom.prop.gen followed by one for nom.gen:
 <pre>
     <def-cat n="nom.gen">
@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
       <cat-item tags="np.*.gen.*"/>
     </def-cat>
+…
+    <rule><pattern><pattern-item n="nom.gen"/>…</rule>
+…
+    <rule><pattern><pattern-item n="nom.prop.gen"/>…</rule>
 </pre>
-then the first will block the second *for the proper nouns* (though not for non-proper nouns). To avoid the warning, simply define a
+then the first rule block the second rule ''for the proper nouns'' (though non-proper nouns will still be handled by the first rule).
+To avoid the warning, simply define a
 <pre>
     <def-cat n="nom.unprop.gen">
@@ Line 28: / Line 34: @@
     </def-cat>
 </pre>
-and use that in the second rule.
+and use that in the second rule. The behaviour will be the same.
 ==When it's OK==

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 </pre>
 (exchanging apertium-dan-nor.nor-dan.t1x for your transfer file)
+==How to avoid==
+If you have a rule for nom.prop.gen followed by one for nom.gen, defined as
+<pre>
+    <def-cat n="nom.gen">
+      <cat-item tags="n.*.gen.*"/>
+      <cat-item tags="np.*.gen.*"/>
+    </def-cat>
+    <def-cat n="nom.prop.gen">
+      <cat-item tags="np.*.gen.*"/>
+    </def-cat>
+</pre>
+then the first will block the second *for the proper nouns* (though not for non-proper nouns). To avoid the warning, simply define a
+<pre>
+    <def-cat n="nom.unprop.gen">
+      <cat-item tags="n.*.gen.*"/>
+    </def-cat>
+</pre>
+and use that in the second rule.
+==When it's OK==
+For "catch-all" rules, it's fine if there is some overlap.
 [[Category:Transfer]]