Running a pipeline library (was Re: XProc Minutes 27 Sep 2007)

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Norman Walsh writes:

>   pipeline library
>
>    ->
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-wg/2007Sep/0143.html
>
>    Norm: So the question is, if you hand a pipeline *library* to a processor
>    should it run a particular pipeline.
>    ... Seems to me that the implementation should take an option to specify
>    which library

....

>    Question: should we add a feature to establish the default pipeline in a
>    pipeline-library?
>
>    Y: 2; N: 6 (3 concur)
>
>    Norm: I don't see support for it. Anyone object to leaving it out of V1?
>
>    Murray wonders what Richard and Henry would have said. Norm does too, for
>    that matter.

I would have voted No.  I think it's worth adding some text pointing
out that implementations may provide a way for a user to run a named
pipe from a library.

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