I have been trying to decide what the best way to filter a set of data for a tree view is.
The filters are in the following XML format: (sometimes)
Filtering two datasets: >
AND
So I've been thinking about writing special conditions for the following, which are required at times because some of the data in a SpecificItem attribute-"" is coma delimited
condition (when critieria has to be evaluated as indexOf()) condition (when criteria applies to a SuperCat) condition (when multiple filters of same category, include expands) condition (when multiple categories being filtered, include narrows)
How can I write a simple function without multiple cases that meets these special conditions, and does typical standard filtering, loops through the multiple data sets to filter.
I've already written out a bunch of specific cases that make this all possible, but I feel like there should be a much simpler, better, and maybe more correct way to do this.