Re: Steps with non-connected outputs

/ Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> was heard to say:
| We can try to define precisely what "evaluate" means, like Alex did.
| Alternatively, I think that we can clarify this by just saying that a
| pipeline that has step with non-connected outputs must behave as if
| those steps were connected to a "/dev/null" step which sends the data
| to the bit bucket.

Yes. I like that. Any unconnected output is implicitly connected to
bit-bucket:

  <p:declare-step type="p:dev-null">
    <p:input name="source" sequence="yes"/>
  </p:declare-step>

In fact, my impl literally does this at the moment. (Except that
bit-bucket is in my extension namespace.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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