Re: Syntax noodling

/ Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say:
[...]
| So:
|
|   <p:step name="xslt">
|     <p:input href="document.xml" />
|     <p:input name="style" href="style.xsl" />
|     <p:output href="out.xml" />
|   </p:step>
|
| could be understood as representing four steps: load document.xml, load
| style.xsl, xslt step, and save out.xml. The graph would look like:
|
|                            (load) href: style.xsl
|                               |
|                               | style
|                               v
|         (load) -----------> (xslt)
|   href: document.xml          |
|                               |
|                               v
|                             (save) href: out.xml
|
| I'd certainly like to see this as a shorthand, and we *could* say that
| it's the only way to invoke the load and save components.

To me, it seems a little less natural to have an href attribute on
a p:input map to the href attribute on some other component's p:param
element, but I do like your mapping better than mine, at a high level.

Is it your intent that href on output can be combined with a label?

  <p:step name="xslt">
    <p:input href="document.xml" />
    <p:input name="style" href="style.xsl" />
    <p:output href="out.xml" label="styleout"/>
  </p:step>

So that this provides a short cut for both the "save" component and
the "tee" component?

I'm trying not to worry too much about the shortcuts until we have a
better understood "full syntax" but I can see that these things are
all related.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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