RE: ISSUE 16: parameters for rules from Yves Savourel on 2012-06-11 (public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org from June 2012)

From: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:35:35 +0100
To: <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
Message-ID: <assp.0509e81d40.assp.0509571336.004d01cd47e7$d8eb5010$8ac1f030$@com>

Hi Jirka, all,

> Personally I tend to be conservative in adding features.
> So unless there is clear demand supported by use-cases 
> I wouldn't do this. If decide to do this we need mechanism 
> similar to AVT in XSLT, see:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates

So far I haven't seen any use case where the variable would be in something else than an XPath expression.

So if nobody else can come up with a use case I agree that we can just limit the parameters requirement to enabling the use of XPath variables.

Cheers,
-ys

Received on Monday, 11 June 2012 15:36:39 UTC