Re: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

/ Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|
|> If your pipeline declares that it has two outputs, and O1 and O2b are
|> bound to those outputs, then they are both outputs of the pipeline.
|>
|
| I agree. But that's not the same thing as "The outputs from the last component
| constitute the outputs of the pipeline itself", or am I missing anything else?

Bad writing on my part.

| Maybe something along the lines of "The outputs of the pipeline are defined by
| explicitly declaration or implicitly bound to the last component's outputs."

Yep.

| I like that solution as it dismisses explicit iteration constructs. On a

I'm not sure it replaces the iteration construct...

| sidenote, in your example "match" is regex-based, right?

Yes, that's what I had in mind.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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