Re: Store Component

On 4/29/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>
> / Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
> | For the store step, we have a note that says:
> |
> | "Should this step allow sequences on its input?"
> |
> | That would mean we could serialize a sequence of documents as
> | a text entity.  But we can't then load this with the load step.
> |
> | I propose we answer that note with "NO".
>
> I agree.
>
> However, I understood the meaning of accepting sequences to be that
> it would serialize each individual document at the base URI of the
> document, not as a sequence of elements in an external parsed
> entity.



If you wanted to do that, you could wrap the store in a for-each.

Since p:load produces a single document, it would be nice to have symmetry
with
p:store.


-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics