Re: Naming ports vs. naming documents

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
| An alternative occurs to me, which is to have a mechanism for getting
| the output of one component into another component's parameter.  I
| think this has been suggested before; it corresponds to the unix
| shell's backquote syntax.
|
| Then we could have a "temporary file" component that consumes an XML
| file and outputs (wrapped in a trivial document) a generated URI in
| which it has stored it.  In the XSLT import example, this would be
| connected to a parameter of the stylesheet.

Just so we have it in the email thread, as we discussed on the phone,
this doesn't (directly) solve the XSLT case because the href on an
xsl:import or xsl:include can't refer to a parameter.

However, if we can write things to temporary files, the pipeline could
conceivably "rewrite" the stylesheet to include the relevant file.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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