RE: What is passed between processes?

> 
> Fang, Andrew wrote:
> 
> > If I decide to switch to a different vendor/implementation, I expect
it
> > to work. I may get some warning about missing components, but it
should
> > still complete the process.
> >
> 
> I totally agree.  However, this will enforce the need of having a set
of
> standard processing components (such as XSLT, XInclude, Schema
> validation, just to name a few). I'm not so sure about the process
> completeness. I believe the processing model should state that a
> conformant implementation is able to process a pipeline if it has all
> the components available.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rui

I was actually thinking about a fall back mechanism here. Custom
component should specify a fallback that must be implemented by all
pipeline implementations. It could be as simple as passing the
information along without any processing.

Andrew