Re: Naming ports vs. naming documents

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
| I'm assuming that there's a component description somewhere with the
| signature of the component in it.  The XSLT component has "source" and
| "stylesheet" inputs and a "result" output, so all instances of the
| XSLT component have them.  There is no need for any ports to be
| mentioned in the pipeline except to connect them up. 

I see. Yes, that would work, but I think I'd prefer to make all the
inputs and outputs explicit in each step even if it's not technically
necessary. I think allowing all those defaults would make pipelines
much harder to read.

| The "step.port" syntax was not intended to be a real proposal, just
| something to convey the idea.

Right.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.