LCWD comments from XML Query and XSL WGs

The XML Query and XSL WGs approved the following comments on the XProc 
LCWD [1] at our meeting on Sept. 16:



1) 2.6.2.2 Step XPath Context, minor technical

Some of these items should specify that they are augmenting the values 
provided by an implementation: Statically known namespaces, Default 
element/type namespace, In-scope schema definitions, In-scope variables, 
and Function signatures.

An XPath implementation might provide some statically known namespaces, 
for example, that are then augmented by those of p:namespaces, rather than 
overwritten by them. 


2) 5.14 p:data, editorial

Examples use p:file, rather than p:data.


3) 7.2.9 p:xquery, bulleted list beginning "The query port ...", editorial

The 4th bullet does not recognize the third bullet. It should be changed 
to "Otherwise, the interpretation of the query is implementation-defined."


4) 7.2.9 p:xquery, "The static context is augmented as follows:", minor 
technical

The static and dynamic context would be better stated independently of 
section 2.6.2.2 Step XPath Context. That section is written rather 
narrowly. It does not, for example, allow namespaces known a priori to the 
XQuery implementation. We suggest the following:


The static context of the XQuery processor is augmented in the following 
way:

Statically known default collection type:       document()*
Statically known namespaces:                    The namespace declarations 
in-scope for the
                                                containing element or made 
available through
                                                p:namespaces.

The dynamic context used in evaluation the query is:

Context item:           document provided by the source-node port
Context position:       1
Context size:           1
Variable values:        The p:xquery parameters 
                        augment the variable bindings of the XQuery 
processor.
                        The parameter values are passed to the XQuery 
processor
                        as values of type xs:untypedAtomic.
Function implementations:       The function implementations provided by 
                                the XQuery processor.
Current dateTime:       implementation-defined value
Implicit timezone:      implementation-defined value
Available documents:    implementation-dependent
Available collections:  implementation-dependent
Default collection:     sequence of documents provided by the source port


5) 7.2.9 p:xquery, an example would be useful, editorial

Example:

<p:pipeline xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc">

<p:xinclude/>

<p:validate-with-xml-schema>
  <p:input port="schema">
    <p:document href="http://example.com/path/to/schema.xsd"/>
  </p:input>
</p:validate-with-xml-schema>

<p:query>
   <p:input port="query">
      <p:data href="file:countp.xq" />
   </p:input>
   <p:input port="source">
      <p:pipe step="validate-with-xml-schema" port="result"/>
   </p:input>
</p:query>

</p:pipeline>


Where countp.xq contains the following:

<count>{count(.//p)}</count>


                                                -- Andrew


[1] XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xproc-20080814/


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