Re: An unfulfilled requirement maybe?

/ Vasil Rangelov <boen.robot@gmail.com> was heard to say:
| Run a program of your own, with some parameters, on an XML file and display
| the result in a browser.
| "
| And this seems to be something XProc doesn't really allow. You can create
| your own pipelines, OK. XProc provides means for third party extension
| steps. OK. But there's no step or anything to allow you to run a program of
| your own with some parameters.

Yes, I think you're right. I mostly like your proposal, though I think
I'd prefer to name the step p:exec and call the option that contains
the command "command" rather than "line".

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Received on Friday, 28 September 2007 17:35:42 UTC