Re: Steps with non-connected outputs

/ Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> was heard to say:
|> Yes.
|
| Why would the step run in this case? Do we have something in our
| current specification that mandates this behavior?

From Section 2 Pipeline Concepts:

  ... A pipeline must behave as if it evaluated each step
  each time it occurs. ...

You cannot skip a step just because the output goes into the bit
bucket.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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