Re: 5.4 p:output. Informative para request

"Vasil Rangelov" <boen.robot@gmail.com> writes:

> To me, it's not clear from this how should the processor behave if the step
> actually produces an output on that port. Does the binding only get used as
> a default, or does it override anything the step might have otherwise
> produced on that port? Whatever the case, it should be said explicitly.
>
> (Personally, I'd prefer for the binding to be used as a default)

You can only put a binding inside a p:output on a compound step, in
which case the result of that binding *is* the output, there's no
other way for the step to produce anything on that port. Well, you could
make a sequence:

  <p:output>
     <p:document .../>
     <p:pipe step="somechildstep" port="result"/>
  </p:output>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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