Re: parameters with my test runner

James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com> writes:

> The other is I have a ext:xproc which runs an xproc pipeline given an input.

I have one of those now too :-)

> Plenty of the tests in the test suite define multiple inputs which
> reflect that some steps have multiple inputs (p:xslt for example).
>
> I could choose to define ext:xproc with all known non primary inputs
> but I would also have to define the corresponding top level inputs,
> this approach is not really maintainable.

I decided to use a wrapper, so all of the inputs are wrapped in a
single document.

> perhaps this is a good example for the use of parameters?

No, because parameters must be strings. I didn't want it that way, but
consensus went against me.

> as an aside, is the name 'parameters' reserved e.g. is this possible
>
>   <p:input port="parameters" kind="document"/>

No, it's not reserved, so yes, that's possible. Not on a p:pipeline,
of course, where the name is used for you implicitly.

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