Re: The Scope of Step Names

/ Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> was heard to say:
| On 10/2/06, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> wrote:
|>
|> Alex Milowski wrote:
|>
|>  > 1. Step must be able to refer to other steps that are
|>  >    siblings (preceding and following) otherwise you
|>  >    can't connected steps at all.
|>
|> "Preceding siblings" would be enough IMO.
|
| So you will make a special case of p:declare-output in p:for-each or
| p:viewport or even in p:choose which reference siblings and even
| descendants of siblings

You can't reference descendants of siblings.

But I take your point with respect to document order. I don't find it
difficult conceptually to say that an elements children come "before"
it, but I'm not sure how I'd justify it exactly :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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