Re: XProc Editors Draft 2007-07-19: Appendix A.1 Comments

Jeni

On 7/23/07, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:
>
> A.1.3 Equal: The fail-if-not-equal option hasn't been described. Why
> return "1" or "0" rather than the more human-readable "true" or "false"?

I think it match directly boolean() of XPath, isn'it ?

> A.1.8 Insert: There's no need to specify an XPath context here, since
> this step has a match pattern, not a select expression.
>
> A.1.8 Insert: It would seem more useful to me to have insert add an
> element before or after the matched element itself. This would enable
> you to insert an element as the middle child, or in order (if the source
> was already sorted):
>
>    <p:insert>
>      <p:input port="insertion">
>        <p:inline><item n="3" /></p:inline>
>      </p:input>
>      <p:option name="match" value="/list/item[@n &lt; 3][last()]" />
>      <p:option name="before-or-after" value="before" />
>    </p:insert>

Well what do you do in case the match pattern doesn't match anything ?

Mohamed
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