Re: Minutes for XProc WG telcon of 6 Apr 2006

I was talking about testing over pipeline parameters without having to 
test xpaths against documents. Example:

<p:pipeline>
   <p:param name="debug" value="false" />

   <p:step name="xslt">
     ...
   </p:step>
   <p:if test="true($debug)">
     <!-- perform some debugging tasks -->
   </p:if>
   ...
</p:pipeline>


If this type of features isn't allowed in the pipeline language, we 
would have to define the debug flag in a dummy document and afterwards 
test that document with a xpath expression.

Cheers,
Rui


Innovimax SARL wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm not sure to understand all your resquest but imagine it is a 
> XSLT-like parameter style
> Then a parameter is just a xsl:variable-like so can be accessed via XPath
> That's another point for XPath to be intimately related to XProc
> 
> Mohamed
> 
> 
> On 4/10/06, *Rui Lopes* <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt <mailto:rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt>> 
> wrote:
> 
>      >
>      >   Conditionals and sub-pipelines
>      >
>      >    Norm: Richard proposed a single standard conditional that
>     takes a document
>      >    and an XPath, is that enough?
>      >
>      >    Norm wonders if the WG thinks that's all we need
>      >
>      >    Henry: If you need something really complicated, you can write an
>      >    arbitrarily complicated computation that produces a document.
>      >    ... And then switch on that conditional.
>      >
>      >    Proposal: The pipeline conditional component is XPath
>     expression over
>      >    document. If you need more, build a document and use that?
>      >
>      >    Accepted.
> 
> 
>     I've been thinking a bit more about this issue. On the assumption that
>     we allow specifying pipeline parameters (like step/component parameters
>     - which I would like to have in the language), shouldn't we allow
>     conditionals over these parameters? I wouldn't like to have to produce a
>     document for activating a simple debug flag inside an XProc-based
>     application, for instance.
> 
> 
>     Rui
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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