Microcomponents, match and select

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I realised, courtesy of a brief conversation with Richard just now,
what's really bothering me:  microcomponents are intended, as their
name suggests, to be lightweight both technically and conceptually.  I
want to be able to explain each of them in under a minute.  Match
patterns are simpler to write, read and understand, and I value that
simplicity and I think our users will also.

In other words, I think this is an 80-20 argument -- only a small
number of tricky cases will require 'select' semantics -- if you need
that additional power for a tricky case, write an XSLT step.

ht
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 Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
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