Re: Proposed standard component: p:tee

/ Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|> The p:tee component accepts a single document and copies it to its
|> output. It also stores a copy of it in the specified URI:
|>
|> <p:declare-step type="p:tee">
|>   <p:input port="source" sequence="no"/>
|>   <p:output port="result" sequence="no"/>
|>   <p:option name="href" required="yes"/>
|> </p:declare-step>
|>
|> This isn't strictly necessary as it can be achieved with a p:store
|> component. However, if you use a p:store, then you have to change
|> other parts of the pipeline.
|
| Why not just make <p:store>'s default output its input?

Because p:store outputs the URI that it actually used when it did the
store operation. I think we want to keep that.

The other obvious way to do this is to give p:identity an href option,
but I don't see any compelling reason why overloading an existing
component is preferable to another simple component.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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