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        }

        if ($numberOfChildren > 0) {

            $block = feature_block('Number of Taxa');

            $block->content = array(markup_to_render_array(

                '<ul class="feature-block-elements"><li>'

                . $numberOfChildren . " " . $subRank

 *   source reference is considered to be not empty.

 *

 * @TODO this function may have become obsolete by the new method of detecting empty blocks,

 */

function has_feature_node_description_elements($featureNode) {

   *

   * @ingroup compose

   */

    $block_list = array();

            if(isset($taxon) ) {

              $taxon_uuid = $taxon->uuid;

            }

            $block_content_is_empty = empty($elements_render_array);

            $block->content[] = $elements_render_array;

          }

              if (isset($child->descriptionElements) && is_array($child->descriptionElements)) {

                foreach ($child->descriptionElements as $element) {

                  if (is_array($element->media)) {

                    // Append media of subordinate elements to list of main

        if (!array_search($repr, $text_data_out_array)) { // de-duplication !!

          $text_data_out_array[] = $repr;

          // not work since this array contains html attributes with uuids

          // and what is about cases like the bibliography where

          // any content can be prefixed with some foot-note anchors?

    if ($text_data_out_array && variable_get(DISTRIBUTION_TEXTDATA_DISPLAY_ON_TOP, 0)) {

        $text_data_out_array,

        $feature,

        $text_data_glue,

      }

      //

        $dto_out_array,

        $feature,

        $distribution_glue,

    // --- TextData at the bottom

    if ($text_data_out_array && !variable_get(DISTRIBUTION_TEXTDATA_DISPLAY_ON_TOP, 0)) {

        $text_data_out_array,

        $feature,

        $text_data_glue,

   *

   * @ingroup compose

   */

    $feature_block_settings = get_feature_block_settings($feature->uuid);

    if($feature_block_settings['as_list']){

   *

   * @ingroup compose

   */

    $render_array = array();

    $elements_out_array = array();

      if ($descriptionElement->feature->uuid == UUID_CITATION) {

        sort($elements_out_array);

      }

    if($feature_block_has_content){

        $elements_out_array,

        $feature

      );

    } // End of loop over set of elements per language area

      $common_name_feature_elements,

      $feature,

      '; ',

    $text_data_out[] = drupal_render($text_data_render_array);

  }

    $text_data_out,

    $feature

  );

//                 continue;

//               }

              $elements_by_feature = _mergeFeatureTreeDescriptions($occurrence_featureTree->root->childNodes, $description->elements);

              $dd_elements[] = $description_render_elements;

            }

  // Render the sections for each feature

  $bibliography_settings = get_bibliography_settings();

  if($bibliography_settings['enabled'] == 1){

   * @return array

   *  an associative array of settings, with the following fields:

   *    - as_list: string

   *        possible values are:

   *          div: not as list,

   *          ul: as bullet list,

   *        possible values are the constants SORT_ASC, SORT_DESC, NULL,

   *        some feature types (Distribution) also support: SORT_HIERARCHICAL (

   *        TODO option to exclude levels, put in special?,

   *    - element_tag

   *        specifies the tag to be used for creating the elements, only applies if "as_list" == 'div'

   *        possible values are span | div. the proper inner tag name can be retrieved by the function

   */

  function get_feature_block_settings($feature_uuid = 'DEFAULT') {

    // the default must conform to the default parameter values of

    // compose_description_element_textdata() : asListElement = NULL

    // see #3257 (implement means to define the features to show up in the taxonprofile and in the specimen descriptions)

      }

      if ($numberOfChildren > 0) {

        $block = feature_block('Number of Taxa');

        $block->content = array(markup_to_render_array('<ul class="feature-block-elements"><li>' . $numberOfChildren . " " . $subRank . '</li></ul>'));

        array_unshift($block_list, $block);

        cdm_toc_list_add_item('Number of Taxa', 'number-of-taxa', NULL, TRUE);

  $feature = NULL;

  // FIXME the below line was plain wrong before refactoring from theme to compose function

  // which could never have worked

}

/**