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

On 7/24/07, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:
>
> Alex Milowski wrote:
> > On 7/23/07, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote:
> >> Could we have a description of the semantics of the 'href' attribute on
> >> <c:result>? What does it mean if both 'value' and 'href' are specified,
> >> or is this impossible?
> >
> > Yes, I'll clarify that.
> >
> > The 'value' and 'href' attributes are mutually exclusive in their use by
> > the steps.  I'll clarify that in this section.
>
> Actually, looking through the places where this is used, why can't we
> just have a <c:result> element whose *value* is the relevant value? The
> advantage of this would be that it's easier (shorter XPath) to get to
> the value:
>
>    <p:count />
>    <p:choose>
>      <p:when test="/p:result > 2">
>        ...
>      </p:when>
>      <p:otherwise>
>        ...
>      </p:otherwise>
>    </p:choose>
>
> What do we gain by specially label those results that are URIs?

I'm not sure what value we gain.  I think we started with 'href' and then it
expanded from there.

I'm OK with making this the text value of the element.  Any objections?

-- 
--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