- From: Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:56:24 +0000
- To: "Alessandro Vernet" <avernet@orbeon.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
I should add that the idea behing this is to allow, later, (may be it's too early now to precise this) in the language an 'assert' facility in each step (in fact precondition and postcondition) to check whether or not this step should be run another time Mohamed On 3/30/06, Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> wrote: > Alessandro > > Thank you for clear reformulation of my thoutght > > Yes that's it ! > > Mohamed > > On 3/30/06, Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> wrote: > > > > On 3/23/06, Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The idea is to allow backtracking of the pipeline (manage the pipes by > > > taking the outputs of it) and looking if condition changes so the > > > processor could regenerate the content > > > > > > So S2 which is the last for example has a test which could tell to the > > > processor (which could just be, "has the file timestamp of A changed > > > ?" > > > > Mohamed, > > > > Assuming we have a pipeline "A -> S1 -> B -> S2 -> C", in which S1 and > > S2 are two steps, document A is transformed in document B by S1, and > > document B transformed in document C by S2, then you are saying that > > you would the pipeline language not to prevent an implementation from > > being able to detect when running the pipeline that the pipeline has > > already been executed before, that A has not changed since then, that > > S1 and S2 have no side effect, and that consequently there is no need > > to actually to run the steps S1 and S2, as they would generate the > > same output documents. > > > > Is this way to put it consistent with the idea you had in mind? If it > > is, I for one am favorable to include this in our list of use cases. > > > > Alex > > -- > > Blog (XML, Web apps, Open Source): > > http://www.orbeon.com/blog/ > > > > > > > -- > Innovimax SARL > Consulting, Training & XML Development > 9, impasse des Orteaux > 75020 Paris > Tel : +33 8 72 475787 > Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 > http://www.innovimax.fr > RCS Paris 488.018.631 > SARL au capital de 10.000 € > -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 8 72 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €
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