Re: Saxonica Comment 7 on XProc last-call draft, sections 1 and 2

/ ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh writes:
|
|> I'd be willing to leave the ability to pass non-string values as
|> implementation defined, I think. With a dynamic error if you attempt
|> to do so in an implementation that can't.
|
| How would you be able to tell that the attempt was being made?

If the computed value of the parameter wasn't a string.

| Coming late to this discussion, I think I strongly prefer the _status
| quo_.  The bottom line is that XSLT and friends are a minority of the
| step types, and their special needs have already seriously skewed the
| architecture (w/o them, we wouldn't have parameters), and I don't want

Yes, but you can turn that around. Given that we have parameters
essentially only because we feel it's critical to give good support to
XSLT, it seems unfortunate to leave them so incomplete as to be
useless for a (possibly significant) class of XSLT stylesheets.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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