Re: More defaulting

On 4/24/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>
> Consider:
>
> <p:serialize>
>   <p:option name="href" value="/tmp/out.xml"/>
>   <p:option name="method" value="html"/>
> </p:serialize>
>
> I wonder if we should allow that to be written as:
>
> <p:serialize href="/tmp/out.xml" method="html"/>



I would love to be able to do that!!!

I wonder if we should also allow
>
>   <p:option name="href" value="/tmp/out.xml"/>
>
> to be expressed as
>
>   <p:option href="/tmp/out.xml"/>



Yes.


I have mixed feelings about both of these, but I find myself doing the
> latter by accident sometimes and wishing for the former. Now that we
> have options and parameters clearly distinct, it doesn't seem totally
> unreasonable to do this.
>
> In both cases, I would expect the attribute values to be taken literally.
> If you want a select, you have to do it the long way:
>
>   <p:option name="href" select="concat($basedir,'foo.html')"/>



Sure.

BTW, what is the 'p:serialize' step ?  Do you mean 'p:store' or your
proposed
XSLT 2.0 serialization step ?

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