Make its:param optional?

• From: Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>
• Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:00:55 -0400
• To: public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
• Message-ID: <1349888455.2163.81.camel@recto>

I was working with the DOM XPath API and noticed that it doesn't
have a standard way of binding variables to an XPath evaluation
context. That means you really can't support its:param if you're
using that API.

Would it make sense to make its:param an optional feature? We
were careful to specify that no variables should be used unless
specified in an its:param element. So I think we could safely
say something like "an implementation that does not support
its:param must not apply any rules from an its:rules element
that contains any its:param elements".

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Shaun

Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:01:22 UTC