- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:43:51 -0400
- To: <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: public-xml-processing-model-wg-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-xml-processing-model-wg-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Norman Walsh > Sent: Thursday, 2006 September 21 09:34 > To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org > Subject: 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... I am strongly in favor of Norm's thoughts here, and it sounds like Richard and Henry are too. paul
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