Logical translation of nested logic:equal tags ?

Question

I see this in a JSP (I've simplified it) that I have to modify:
<logic:notEqual name="someForm" property="XYZ" value="4">
<logic:notEqual name="someForm" property="XYZ" value="5">
<logic:notEqual name="someForm" property="XYZ" value="5">
<TD>String 1</TD>
</logic:notEqual>
</logic:notEqual>
</logic:notEqual>
The effect it has is like an "AND".
So if ((XYZ != 4) AND (XYZ != 5) and (XYZ != 6))
then show the string.
Now I wanted to add something that said "but if it IS one of those three... (an OR condition, like "equals this OR this OR this"), then show something else."
So I tried the above except changed them to logic:equals, and it doesn't work. In fact the behavior doesn't change at all, because I think it's doing "AND" again. And of course, it's never going to equal 4 AND 5 AND 6 at the same time.
Am I straight on this? How do you create an OR condition? I looked at the <nested:equal> tag a little bit, but I'm not certain I understand what it offers.

Answer 1

Hi,
You are not getting the desired result because you are trying to aggregate the depreciation and the accumulated depreciation of the same month and post the result again in the same month. Lets say the code is working for 2009.MAR. You are trying to add the depreciation and accumulated depreciation of 2009.MAR. However, you still dont have the acc depreciation of 2009.MAR. You basically need to take the acc depreciation of the previous month.
You can try something like:
*WHEN ACCOUNT
*IS Depreciation
     *FOR %MON% = 2009.FEB,2009.MAR,2009.APR
          *REC(EXPRESSION = %VALUE% + ([ACCOUNT].[AccumDep],[TIME].Previous), ACCOUNT=AccumDep)
     *NEXT
*ENDWHEN
*COMMIT
You can have a property called Previous to store the previous month of each period in the time dimension.
Hope you got the idea.