- From: Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:56:24 +0200
- To: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
On 10/21/06, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I gave a keynote at DocEng 2006 [1] on pipelining in general and XProc > in particular. It went down fairly well, but there were four areas where > the crowd pushed back: > > 1. If you have to declare exactly the same outputs in the whens and > otherwise of a choose, then you should do it at the choose level rather > than the when/otherwise level. Faire enough > > 2. Why no loops/recursion? Don't understand really what it could mean ? Loops and recursion on what ? > > 3. A general plea for a means of expressing out-of-band dependencies, or > at the very least a side-effect-free/functional="yes|no|maybe" indication. > A kind of annotation of this type at the declare component level could indeed be useful for optimization > 4. A request that we define what checks should be carried out statically > on the pipeline (e.g. on stylesheets/schemas that are defined using > 'here' documents). It's interesting but I think out of scope for V1 (or may be for very simple case). But could be easily added in a V.next > > I should point out that the attendees were mostly academics/researchers > (i.e. power-users/implementers), and I'm just reporting on what they > said; I don't necessarily agree with them. > > Cheers, > > Jeni > > [1] http://www.cwi.nl/events/2006/DocEng2006/ > -- > Jeni Tennison > http://www.jenitennison.com > > -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 8 72 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €
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