- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:29:15 +0100
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
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Norman Walsh writes:
> / Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say:
> | Ah right, so you expect non-default <p:input>s that are unbound to
> | default to an empty sequence. (And therefore generate a (static) error
> | if they're not declared to accept a sequence.)
> |
> | I don't violently object to that; it just wasn't specified in the proposal.
>
> I think I do object.
>
> First, I don't want this
>
> <p:step>
> <p:input port="something"/>
> </p:step>
>
> to be semantically different from
>
> <p:step/>
>
> That is, I don't mind if authors put in empty inputs, but I don't want
> it to be different from just leaving the input out.
I probably withdraw the empty sequence idea, but I don't agree with
_this_. The first is the user explicitly acknowledging that they know
the (secondary) port exists, and want the system to bind it for them.
The second is the user forgetting about the port altogether. That
should raise an error.
ht
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