- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:12:40 +0100
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
Innovimax SARL wrote: > On 10/21/06, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: >> 2. Why no loops/recursion? > > Don't understand really what it could mean ? Loops and recursion on what ? We currently say: Definition: A pipeline is a set of components connected together, with outputs flowing into inputs, without any loops (no component can read its own output, directly or indirectly). Some of the people at DocEng asked why we have this restriction, especially given that we don't place any restriction on how URIs are resolved: although we say that there aren't any loops, it would be possible to access a document (via a URI) that is, in fact, generated by the very pipeline that is accessing that document. So although we say that there aren't any loops, because we don't say anything about URI resolution, we can't guarantee that they won't be. Cheers, Jeni -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com
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