- From: Romain Deltour <rdeltour@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:25:02 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org Comments" <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
> What about step outputs?
Very good question :)
In one way or another, if XProc starts accepting any XDM on a step’s inputs, there will need to be clearly defined type coercion rules. In that case, adding any-XDM outputs to the mix would make sense, as far as I can see.
Romain.
On 19 févr. 2014, at 18:12, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Romain Deltour writes:
>
>>> So, source on steps has an arbitrary XPath as value? What about _its_
>>> value? Is it restricted to documents? If not, is it restricted at
>>> all?
>>
>> The idea would be to allow arbitrary XPath ('item()*'), yes. Some
>> type coercion would be needed at some places, e.g. to serialize an
>> XPath or when an actual document node is expected.
>
> What about step outputs?
>
> ht
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