- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:00:47 -0700
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
Norman Walsh wrote: > / Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say: > | I'm not sure if it was reasonable or not, but the only suggestion I > | remember was to separate the reference into different attributes. So > | instead of: > | > | <p:input port="document" source="validated!result" /> > | > | you'd have something like: > | > | <p:input port="document" source-step="validated" source-port="result" /> > | > | This is good for validation (it's possible to put together identity > | constraints on separate attributes whereas it isn't for the x!y > | notation), and might lead to easy defaulting that in the usual case > | means only one (or neither) of the attributes needs to be specified > | (source-step defaults to the immediately preceding step, source-port > | to the primary output). > | > | On the other hand, it's a lot more verbose. > > Yeah, I'm not naturally moved in that direction. Is "!" just a placeholder or the actual proposed syntax? -Erik -- Orbeon - XForms Everywhere: http://www.orbeon.com/blog/
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