Leave only p:xpath-context

• From: Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot@gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 17:16:21 +0300
• To: <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>
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For simplification to pipeline authors, I think the p:iteration-source and
p:viewport-source should be removed in favor of p:xpath-context.

There seems to be no reason for not doing so. They all share the same
function (to create a binding for a compound step), the same content (a
single binding, pointed either with p:document, p:pipe, p:inline or p:empty)
and everything.

The specification does describe the semantics of p:iteration-source a bit
differently though, so I guess that the it will either have to provide a
generic definition (which practically means removal of the "select"
attribute) or describe the semantics of p:xpath-context in that special
case.

Regards,
Vasil Rangelov

Received on Saturday, 4 August 2007 14:16:31 UTC