Re: Saxonica Comments on XProc last-call draft, sections 1 and 2

On 26/09/2007, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:

> The content of <p:output> doesn't indicate where the document *goes*, it
> indicates where the document bound to that output *comes from*.

> In the <p:output> within the <p:when>, the <p:pipe> points to the output
> of the load-prefs step (the content of the <p:output> indicates where
> the document feeding the <p:output> comes *from*). Similarly, in the
> <p:output> in the <p:otherwise>, the <p:document> points to an XML
> document (again, the content of the <p:output> indicates where the
> document feeding the <p:output> comes *from*).
>
> If that makes sense, perhaps you have suggestions about how we can make
> it clearer in the spec?


How about renaming it to something akin to a 'source' for a port.
I'd assumed an output was a destination not a source.


regards



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Received on Thursday, 27 September 2007 07:10:59 UTC