Comment 30, Parameter inputs as strings (was Re: Saxonica Comments on XProc last-call draft, sections 1 and 2)

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Michael Kay writes:

> 7. Technical. In 2.5, Parameters, it seems unnecessarily constraining to
> require that the value of a parameter be a string. In XSLT, for example, it
> is common for a parameter to have a document as its value.

The Working Group discussed your comment both by email [1] and on a
call [2].   Although your request got some support, the WG did not
reach consensus on a proposal to add such functionality to the spec.
The fact that XSLT itself does not require implementations to support
external binding of documents to parameters was probably the most
telling objection.

The WG did agree that the general question of managing multiple input
documents whose cardinality was not known in advance was one we would
return to for Vnext, and that any solution to that problem would
almost certainly address the requirement which your request was
intended to satisfy.

ht

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-processing-model-comments/2007Oct/0005.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2007/10/04-minutes.html#item05
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