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Default values

Projects can specify default currencies, flow-types, tied-status and so-on, which should cascade down to apply to transactions/budgets etc. unless they specify an alternative. Applications need some logic to cope with this (I've not found a good way to handle this in XSLT yet if it has to also allow for the possibility that the defaults are absent)

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    Chris Wallace

    Default cascades like this can be represented in XPath with expressions such as

    ($transaction/value/@currency,$transaction/../@default-currency,"USD")[1]

    This is a sequence of the transaction currency, the activity default currency and "USD"   [1] selects the first non-null value. 

    Note that  currency="" in a transaction value , whilst valid according to the schema not only  fails referential integrity against the Currency codelist but also makes this default cascade fail and hence requires more complex programming

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