FOR Element

FOR (a child element of STEP) is much like the for used in programming. A for loop repeats until a specified condition evaluates to false.

Supported Values

FOR supports the use of its own child elements as values. For a list of supported child elements please refer to the tree menu on the left.

Examples

In this example, a for loop is created by setting the initial variable as _Var_ with the value as 0, and being incremented by 1 after each loop as long as the value of _Var_ is smaller than 10 (ie. 10 loops in total). During each loop, the value of _Var_ is displayed.

• <STEP>
• • ......
  • <FOR>
  • • <INITIAL>
    • • <VARIABLE>
      • • <NAME>_Var_</NAME>
        • <VALUE>0</VALUE>
      • </VARIABLE>
    • </INITIAL>
    • <CONDITION>
    • • <SMALLER>
      • • <LEFT>_Var_</LEFT>
        • <RIGHT>10</RIGHT>
      • </SMALLER>
    • </CONDITION>
    • <INCREMENT>1</INCREMENT>
    • <LOOP>
    • • <JAVASCRIPT>alert("The value of _Var_ is" + XMLVar._Var_);</JAVASCRIPT>
    • </LOOP>
  • </FOR>
  • ......
• </STEP>