Re: Re: Naming

Alex,

On 8/8/06, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> wrote:
> > - @save="URI": saves the selected documents with the base URI supplied
>
> If this is for debugging purposes, I'd say that implementors have
> an easy handle (e.g. step-name!port ) with which a user can specify
> that they'd like that input/output saved for debugging inspection.
>
> So, maybe we don't need this right now.

I agree.

> > - @wrap="QName": wraps the documents into a single document
>
> This could be very useful.  The implementation cost seems low to
> me.

Yes, indeed.

> I really like this idea.   This also gives us a way to use
> "here" documents to specify static outputs.
>
> The use case for static outputs is where you have many different
> pipelines that need to have the same input/output signature but
> specific pipelines don't need to produce all outputs.  If you
> have "here" documents for outputs, you can place some kind of
> "NOP" XML into that output:
>
> <pipeline name="ex1">
>     ...
>     <output name="result">
>        <mydoc>...</mydoc>
>     </output>
> </pipeline>

Are you saying that in this case, the pipeline output 'result' will
always be the inline <mydoc> document, and that the data won't come
from an step!port inside the pipeline?

Alex
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Received on Wednesday, 9 August 2006 07:23:43 UTC