* Death Witness Role - Doctor

[ColinMc]

Is there something special about the Death Witness Role for Doctor.

I've started with the following code

{individual} died <of a {cause},> {date} <at {address}> {place} {age}.< {individual's} doctor was {role=doctor}. >

This generates a sentence error as follows

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If I then change to {individual}, I get a similar error

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However changing to {his/her} gives me a different error, "her" appears as expected, the Doctor Role is now in error, but the <> symbols are not showing

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Finally removing that first code completely (as in) < doctor was {role=doctor}. >, this works correctly, giving me "doctor was Dr Mason"

I've also tried

adding a word before the problem template code
deleting all the later entries for minister etc (which had all worked fine)
Removing the first {individual} code
{individual/him/her} (same error as {him/her}

but none of these made any difference

So am I doing something wrong? I cannot see anything in the forum/KB.

[ColinMc]

My next test was to simplify the whole thing, and start with <{individual's}> on its own. That worked. I then added {role=doctor}. That worked. I then copied and pasted both working codes, removed the middle <> and I get an error.

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[Jane]

It seems to be a limitation of using another individual format code with in a single section.

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{individual} died <of {cause}> {date} <{address},>{_place}  {age}.  
<  The attending doctor was {role(single)=doctor}.>

works OK as a work around.

[ColinMc]

It has to be more than that. I had already tried removing the first {individual}. as that was my suspicion

But, if you take the bare bones example in my second post, if I remove the first code, I still get an error.

[tatewise]

The restriction is that you cannot have two {codes} within one <angle bracket>.
The first (or maybe the last) {code} determines whether to include the <angle bracket> contents or not, and other {codes} are treated as plain text prefix or suffix.

So if one {code} is any of the {individual...} codes then they always return a value, so they unconditionally include the <angle bracket> contents and everything before or after that {code} is plain text prefix or suffix.

[ColinMc]

OK that makes sense now. Thanks