- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:37:55 +0000
- To: Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
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Alessandro Vernet writes:
> 1) In the definition for Step (in Terminology), we say: "A step is a
> specification of how a component is used in a pipeline that includes
> inputs, outputs, and parameters". As the term "parameters" is not well
> defined and I would prefer to talk here about "inputs and outputs"
> only, "parameters" falling under the broad category of "inputs".
>
> 2) In the definition of "XML pipeline" we also use the term
> "parameters". Here I assume it means "inputs and outputs". If this is
> the case, I suggest we replace in this definition "parameters" by
> "inputs and outputs".
With respect, I think it's important _not_ to conflate inputs and
parameters. This connects up with our discussion on the call
yesterday: inputs, in the prototypical case at any rate, are XML
documents, whereas parameters are (or are adequately modelled as)
name-value pairs. Not at all the same thing, and confusing to try to
use a single term to cover both.
ht
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