Re: Minutes for XProc WG telcon of 6 Apr 2006

Hello

I'm not sure to understand all your resquest but imagine it is a XSLT-like
parameter style
Then a parameter is just a xsl:variable-like so can be accessed via XPath
That's another point for XPath to be intimately related to XProc

Mohamed


On 4/10/06, Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt> wrote:
>
> >
> >   Conditionals and sub-pipelines
> >
> >    Norm: Richard proposed a single standard conditional that takes a
> document
> >    and an XPath, is that enough?
> >
> >    Norm wonders if the WG thinks that's all we need
> >
> >    Henry: If you need something really complicated, you can write an
> >    arbitrarily complicated computation that produces a document.
> >    ... And then switch on that conditional.
> >
> >    Proposal: The pipeline conditional component is XPath expression over
> >    document. If you need more, build a document and use that?
> >
> >    Accepted.
>
>
> I've been thinking a bit more about this issue. On the assumption that
> we allow specifying pipeline parameters (like step/component parameters
> - which I would like to have in the language), shouldn't we allow
> conditionals over these parameters? I wouldn't like to have to produce a
> document for activating a simple debug flag inside an XProc-based
> application, for instance.
>
>
> Rui
>
>
>


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