Re: Proposal: replace here documents with a component

/ Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> was heard to say:
| Mmh, I understand that this adds some complexity to the language.
| However we do have "here documents" in XPL, and you wouldn't believe
| how often you use this functionality - once you have it! In
| particular, you start writing many short inline XSLT stylesheets,
| something you wouldn't do if you had to store them in separate
| documents. So I would dispute that this will be uncommon.

Fair enough. I'm not proposing that they have to go in separate
documents, just in a separate component.

Even if I didn't think that doing so was a significant savings in
syntactic complexity, I'd still be in favor of doing it just for the
simplification it brings to the individual "step" calls.

But I sense I may not be able to get consensus for this proposal...

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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