Re: p:choose with no default

or a p:identity if you want to pass on the input unchanged, I guess.

(apologies for the double post, Romain)

On 6 October 2010 08:01, Romain Deltour <rdeltour@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As far as I know, the idea is to guarantee that the signature of the
> p:choose is consistent regardless of what subpipeline is dynamically
> selected.
>
> From the spec: "in order to ensure that the output of the p:choose is
> consistent irrespective of the subpipeline chosen, each subpipeline must
> declare the same number of outputs with the same names. If any of the
> subpipelines specifies a primary output port, each subpipeline must specify
> exactly the same output as primary. It is astatic error (err:XS0007) if
> two subpipelines in a p:choose declare different outputs."
>
> In your case it depends on the signature of the cstep:create-dedication
> step, but in case it has no output ports, I suppose you can declare a
> p:otherwise with a p:sink child to do nothing by default.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Romain.
>
> Le 6 oct. 10 à 12:04, Nic Gibson a écrit :
>
> Hi
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but I'm failing to see it. I
> have a pipeline in which a step should be executed only if a given element
> is present in the input. Otherwise, nothing need be done - there is no
> meaningful default. So I started with:
>
>
>     <!-- generate the dedication if present -->
>     <p:choose>
>
>         <p:xpath-context>
>             <p:pipe port="result" step="text-fix"></p:pipe>
>         </p:xpath-context>
>
>         <p:when test="/db:book//db:dedication">
>
>             <cstep:create-dedication>
>                 <p:input port="source">
>                     <p:pipe port="result" step="text-fix"/>
>                 </p:input>
>                 <p:with-option name="xhtml-path" select="$xhtml-path"/>
>             </cstep:create-dedication>
>
>         </p:when>
>
>     </p:choose>
>
> This fails with the error:
>
> SEVERE: It is a dynamic error if no subpipeline is selected by the p:choose
> and no default is provided.
>
> I assume that this a meaningful way to express this sort of thing in XProc
> but I'm vaguely stumped as to what is. Would anyone care to point out the
> (probably obvious) approach I should be taking?
>
> cheers
>
> nic
>
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> Nic Gibson
> Corbas Consulting
> Digital Publishing Consultancy and Training
> http://www.corbas.co.uk, +44 (0)7718 906817
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