Re: XQuery WG comments on XProc specification from Florent Georges on 2008-07-02 (public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:04:48 +0200
To: "Andrew Eisenberg" <andrew.eisenberg@us.ibm.com>
Cc: public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <ebaca5bf0807021404n679698bau2e680e738d7b5c33@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/07/2008, Andrew Eisenberg wrote:

  Hi,

> The result of the XQuery is used to generate the sequence of
> documents that is returned by this step. Each document node and
> element node in result sequence of the XQuery generates a document
> in the result sequence. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0057) if the
> sequence that results from an XQuery contains items other than
> document nodes and element nodes.

> The base URI of each of the output documents is the base URI of the
> first document in the source port's sequence.

  I don't understand the last sentence.  XDM defines the property
'base-uri' for each seven kinds of node.  Why don't use it directly?

  Regards,

--drkm

Received on Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:05:22 UTC