Re: Parameters and options

/ Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> was heard to say:
| On 4/16/07, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote:
|> Consider:
|>
|>   <p:declare-step type="px:debug">
|>     <p:parameter name="*"/>
|>     <p:option name="opt1"/>
|>     <p:option name="opt2"/>
|>   </p:declare>
|>
|> Then, I believe our intent is that the following is legal:
|>
|>   <p:load name='loader'>
|>     <p:input port="source">
|>       <p:inline>
|>         <doc/>
|>       </p:inline>
|>     </p:input>
|>   </p:load>
|>
|
| It should be p:identity no ? p:load has no input

Yes. Sorry. I started with the idea that I'd load from a URI then
switched to an inline document without changing the name.

|>   <px:debug>
|>     <p:parameter name="elemcountplus1" select="$elemcount+1"/>
|>     <p:parameter name="elemcount" select="count(//*)">
|>       <p:pipe step="loader" port="result"/>
|>     </p:parameter>
|>   </px:debug>
|>
|> And it's up to implementations to make sure that parameters get
|> evaluated in the right order and that there are no circular
|> dependencies. (In this case, elemcount=1 and elemcountplus1=2.)
|
| I would say that $elemcount is undefined in that case,

Ok, that's fine by me. No forward references.

|> I assume that options and parameters are in entirely different
|> namespaces, so:
|>
|>   <px:debug>
|>     <p:parameter name="opt1" value="3"/>
|>     <p:parameter name="opt2" select="$opt1+1"/>
|>     <p:option name="opt1" value="5"/>
|>     <p:option name="opt2" value="$opt1+1"/>
|>   </px:debug>
|>
|> Means the px:debug component gets two parameters, opt1 and opt2, with
|> the values 3 and 4, respectively, and two options, opt1 and opt2, with
|> the values 5 and 6, respectively.
|>
|> Right?
|
| Surely not : how do I access to an parameter value in a option ? In a
| group, I can only define a p:parameter so :
| 1) p:option has no access to p:parameter nor p:option (only static content)
| 2) p:option has access to p:parameter only
| 3) p:option has access to p:parameter and p:option
| 4) p:option has access to p:option only (non sense for me)
|
| I prefer 2, then 3

If we go with case 2 or 3 then do we say that this is an error:

  <px:debug>
    <p:parameter name="opt1" value="3"/>
    <p:option name="opt1" value="5"/>
  </px:debug>

Are we sure we want the existence of an option to preclude the
existence of a parameter with the same name?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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