- From: Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:19:08 +0100
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
Norman Walsh wrote: > |> I don't know. Someone's going to suggest p:finally if we do this. > |> (Actually, it's already been suggested to me, but...) > | > | I'm not sure if p:finally would be useful outside corner cases, but I'd give it > | a chance. Maybe an example would clarify this. > > I can't think of one, but I'm not sure I've ever used "finally" in a > Java program either. Given that steps are self-contained, I really > don't think we need a finally. Though, I suppose someone will raise > the case of an extension step that opens a database and needs a > finally to close it. I guess it would imply having something like px:open-database and px:close-database extension steps. As steps are atomic, that should be handled internally by the component. So I'm with you on this, it looks definitely like a corner case. Rui
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