Re: An unfulfilled requirement maybe?

/ Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot@gmail.com> was heard to say:
| That wasn't my point. I meant what about programs that don't accept XML
| document as their input, but do accept input (i.e. accept plain text input
| or just an input in another non XML format)? An empty binding would be like
| providing no input, but that doesn't deal with programs accepting text input
| (and especially doesn't deal with programs that would require input). The

Right.

If we don't have a stdin port, then you can't run programs that
require input on their stdin. They just won't get any input.

If we do have a stdin port, then we can easily send serialized XML.
That makes programs that (a) manipulate XML and (b) accept XML on
stdin accessible more-or-less directly from inside a pipeline.

What you can't do is run programs that require stdin to be non-XML.
But you couldn't run those if you didn't have a stdin port either.

| If stdin was an option or if there was some way to get the whole text
| contents of the XML document instead, this would sort of solve this.
|
| How about a similar XPointer (or maybe just plain XPath) syntax like the one
| from this other comment of mine?
| http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/200
| 7Sep/0053.html
|
| If THAT was to be accepted, this issue (and many others that could occur)
| would be solved too.

Too much for V1, IMHO.

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                                          norm

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