- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:33:10 -0800
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > 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. Here I have to agree as I view parameters as something that might be a simple value (like a string) or an XML document, while inputs are *only* XML documents. It would, of course, be really nice that it is easy to hook up an output of a step to a parameter of another step. --Alex Milowski
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