- From: Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:50:02 -0800
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Norm,
On 2/8/07, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote:
> I've been using XSLT for years and the fact that no implementation
> I've used allows me to pass anything but strings as parameter values
> From the command line has never been a significant problem for me.
Well experiences differ: I have been using XSLT for years, and the
implementation I am using (Saxon) does allow documents to be passed as
parameters from the command line. But I don't think this is the point.
The question is rather: how do we allow XSLT 2.0 implementation to be
exposed as a component in XProc. And the answer has to include a way
of passing a document as a parameter, as this is required by the XSLT
2.0 specification.
Since XProc parameters work only for strings, we could use XProc
inputs for XSLT parameters that are non-strings. To avoid name clashes
we could say that the port name is prefixed with "param-". So you
would have:
<p:step type="p:xslt">
<p:input port="param-person" .../>
<p:input port="source" .../>
<p:input port="transform" .../>
</p:step>
Any other/better suggestion?
Alex
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