RE: Syntactic sugar for options: a failed experiment?

This is just ringing all sorts of caution bells for me.

I say drop this attempt for V1.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xml-processing-model-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-xml-processing-model-wg-request@w3.org] On 
> Behalf Of Norman Walsh
> Sent: Friday, 2007 May 11 8:36
> To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Syntactic sugar for options: a failed experiment?
> 
> Yesterday, we agreed to allow
> 
>   <px:step optname="value"/>
> 
> as syntactic sugar for
> 
>   <px:step>
>     <p:option name="optname" value="value"/>
>   </px:step>
> 
> All well and good, except:

[lots of confusing examples.]

> Allowing all of the different but obvious shortcuts would 
> make a mess of things, I think.
> 
> Abort. Abort. Abort. ? :-)

Received on Friday, 11 May 2007 14:03:07 UTC