Re: implicit option connections

Hi Erik,

sorry, for this late reply, but the past weeks have been extremely busy. 
And thanks for your highly appreciated feedback!

I think the <p:with-option-map> would be a very helpful when you want to 
turn a map into a set of options from the view of a discrete step. I 
would suggest that we should put this on the agenda in Prague.

But I think my use case is different. I would like that the options in 
scope are automatically passed as options to a discrete step rather than 
converting them previously to a map. I just don't like to waste lines of 
code with declaring obvious things.

Furthermore, this would encourage people to name options consistently 
across different pipelines. As the options are still declared on the top 
of the pipeline, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out, which options 
are in scope.

I admit there is a risk that for example someone uses an option named 
"href" in a pipeline with a p:store where the one forget to declare the 
href explicitely in case the options should have different values. But I 
think it's easy to debug an option. You'll just need a p:message and 
that's it.

I'll create an issue for this feature at 
https://github.com/xproc/3.0-specification and we can discuss this in 
more detail in Prague.

best, Martin


Am 01.12.2017 um 09:39 schrieb Erik Siegel:
> Hi all,
>
> What about this to satisfy your use case:
>
> Maybe we could add a <p:with-option-map> element that accepts a map(xs:QName, item()) and turns the entries in the map into options?
>
> Erik
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Erik Siegel [mailto:mailing@xatapult.nl]
>> Verzonden: donderdag 30 november 2017 16:09
>> Aan: 'Martin Kraetke, le-tex' <martin.kraetke@le-tex.de>; xproc-dev@w3.org
>> Onderwerp: RE: implicit option connections
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Nice syntactic sugar and might save you quite a lot of keystrokes. But my first
>> reaction is:
>> * It goes against the normal programming paradigm of passing parameters
>> to procedures/functions/methods and therefore makes the language harder
>> to learn. Auto-passing options might also give surprising results if you're not
>> aware of an option for some step
>> * There is a mechanism for passing in a whole bunch of parameters in one
>> go in XProc 3: maps.
>>
>> So given the excellent alternative I would at this moment advise against it to
>> prevent making the language even more away of the mainstream than it
>> already is.
>>
>> Erik Siegel
>>
>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>> Van: Martin Kraetke, le-tex [mailto:martin.kraetke@le-tex.de]
>>> Verzonden: donderdag 30 november 2017 11:21
>>> Aan: xproc-dev@w3.org
>>> Onderwerp: implicit option connections
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In XProc 1.0 primary input and output ports are implicitly connected,
>>> if no explicit connection is declared. This is very convenient,
>>> because you can write more compact code.
>>>
>>> I wonder if we can have the same feature for options in XProc 3.0? In
>>> our pipelines, we use frequently the same set of options. With 1.0 we
>>> are forced to declare them explicitely for each step. IMHO, this
>>> results in many redundant code lines and makes the pipeline harder to
>> read.
>>> Therefore, I would propose to specifiy implicit option connections for 3.0:
>>>
>>> If one or more options are in the scope of a step which expects these
>>> options, they should be automatically passed to the step. In this
>>> case, it should not be required to declare them explicitely with
>>> <p:with-option> unless you want to.
>>>
>>> The pipeline below provides a brief demonstration of implicitely
>>> connected options.
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <p:declare-step
>>> xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
>>>    xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"
>>>    version="3.0">
>>>
>>>    <p:input port="source">
>>>      <p:inline>
>>>        <doc>Hello world!</doc>
>>>      </p:inline>
>>>    </p:input>
>>>    <p:output port="result"/>
>>>
>>>    <p:option name="attribute-name" select="'foo'"/>
>>>    <p:option name="attribute-value" select="'bar'"/>
>>>
>>>    <p:add-attribute match="/doc"/>
>>>
>>> </p:declare-step>
>>>
>>> In case, you want to avoid an implicit connection, the easiest way to
>>> do so is to declare the option explitely. If you do not want that the
>>> option is declared at all, I would suggest to add an empty
>>> <p:with-option/> for that step.
>>>
>>> Please let me know, what do you think about implicit option connections?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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>>
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