Re: XProc Minutes for Technical Plenary f2f, 8/9 Nov 2007

> > [Delete this:]
> >   If a compound step has no declared outputs and the last step in
> >   its subpipeline has an unbound primary output, then an implicit
> >   primary output port (named “result”) will be added to the
> >   compound step (and consequently the last step's primary output
> >   will be bound to it).

> I'm not at all happy losing output defaulting for _all_ compound
> steps!  That's not what we agreed at the f2f, IIRC.

We ruled that out a few weeks ago during a telcon.  It's only the
case for pipelines themselves that was still in question.

There's still the issue of giving the defaulted output an unusable
name, e.g. "!result".

-- Richard

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