- From: Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:02:05 +0200
- To: xproc-dev@w3.org
I’d be inclined to close this can of worms (including https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xproc-dev/2017Oct/0008.html) by saying that p:with-input/@select is only applicable to XML input documents. Using it on non-XML documents will raise a dynamic error. If we open it up, it will lead to highly incompatible implementations. I’d rather pass image or text selection expressions as options (that may contain maps) to extension steps. They can interpret them as they like. Initiatives outside of the core XProc spec effort can later try to standardize selection vocabularies for raster images, CSV, JSON, … Gerrit On 10.10.2017 04:53, Norman Walsh wrote: > Today, @select is defined as an XPath expression. Should it be defined > more generally as a string, interprted according to the media type of > the document to which it’s applied? Why should I not be able to select > a portion of a JSON document, or a region of an image? > > Be seeing you, > norm > -- Gerrit Imsieke Geschäftsführer / Managing Director le-tex publishing services GmbH Weissenfelser Str. 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 341 355356 110, Fax +49 341 355356 510 gerrit.imsieke@le-tex.de, http://www.le-tex.de Registergericht / Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Leipzig Registernummer / Registration Number: HRB 24930 Geschäftsführer: Gerrit Imsieke, Svea Jelonek, Thomas Schmidt, Dr. Reinhard Vöckler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet us at Frankfurt Book Fair Hall 4.2, L 72. More at https://www.le-tex.de/en/buchmesse.html
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