Re: subpipelines, Vnext and extension elements redux

/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh writes:
|
|> I think that's where we wound up back when we decided to take
|> pfx:other-compound-step out of 4.7,
|>
|>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xproc-20070706/#p.other
|
| A primary motivation for my lengthy re-analysis was because it
| re-surfaced in the alternate draft, and is still there today [1]:
|
|  "The presence of other compound steps is implementation-defined;
|   XProc provides no standard mechanism for defining them or describing
|   what they can contain."

Right. If I want to implement ex:map-reduce, I'm free to do so. I
don't think we want to forbid implementation-defined compound steps.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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