Re: Naming

Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> I really like this idea.   This also gives us a way to use
>> "here" documents to specify static outputs.
>>
>> The use case for static outputs is where you have many different
>> pipelines that need to have the same input/output signature but
>> specific pipelines don't need to produce all outputs.  If you
>> have "here" documents for outputs, you can place some kind of
>> "NOP" XML into that output:
>>
>> <pipeline name="ex1">
>>     ...
>>     <output name="result">
>>        <mydoc>...</mydoc>
>>     </output>
>> </pipeline>
> 
> Are you saying that in this case, the pipeline output 'result' will
> always be the inline <mydoc> document, and that the data won't come
> from an step!port inside the pipeline?
> 

Yes.

--Alex Milowski

Received on Monday, 14 August 2006 20:49:39 UTC