15.4. Detail of a Rule Element


This example rule has LHS and RHS (conditions and consequence) sections. The RHS is a block of semantic code that will be executed when the rule is activated. The LHS is slightly more complicated as it contains nested elements for conditional elements, constraints and restrictions:
<rule name="simple_rule">
<rule-attribute name="salience" value="10" />
<rule-attribute name="no-loop" value="true" />
<rule-attribute name="agenda-group" value="agenda-group" />
<rule-attribute name="activation-group" value="activation-group" />

<lhs>
    <pattern identifier="cheese" object-type="Cheese">
        <from>
            <accumulate>
                <pattern object-type="Person"></pattern>
                <init>
                    int total = 0;
                </init>
                <action>
                    total += $cheese.getPrice();
                </action>
                <result>
                    new Integer( total ) );
                </result>
            </accumulate>
        </from>
    </pattern>

    <pattern identifier="max" object-type="Number">
        <from>
            <accumulate>
                <pattern identifier="cheese" object-type="Cheese"></pattern>
                <external-function evaluator="max" expression="$price"/>
            </accumulate>
        </from>
    </pattern>
</lhs>
<rhs>
    list1.add( $cheese );
</rhs>
</rule>
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