Re: Alternative to x!y

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| I don't remember any technical grounds on which an XPath syntax was
| rejected.

I assume you mean

  <p:input port="document" source="step/port"/>

If you think that that's XPath then you must be imagining that it's
an abbreviated syntax for:

  <p:input port="document" source="stepname::step/portname::port"/>

Where XProc adds two new axis to XPath, stepname:: and portname::

That looks like an *awfully* large amount of work with all sorts of
subtle consequences.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.