Re: XSLT non-XML output

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
|>   <p:store>
|>     <p:option name="method" select="'html'"/>
|>     ...
|>   </p:store>
|
| That doesn't work for my use case.  I want to associate
| serialization parameters to output ports of pipelines.

Of pipelines, or of steps? It seems to me that the pipeline processor
can do whatever it wants with pipeline outputs. That's explicitly out
of scope.

| That way
| the environment in which the pipeline is executed can do
| the "right thing" much as is the case when you execute
| an XSLT transform with the 'html' serialization output method.

I don't follow the analogy.

But in any event, my knee jerk reaction to having outputs carry around
extra metadata about their anticipated serialization is strongly
negative.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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