Re: Composability

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Jeni Tennison writes:

> [Namespaces]
> 
> The situation that will trip you up, I think, is where the option's
> value is set based on the value of some attribute or element in a
> separate XML document.
> 
> [An increasingly tricky set of examples]
> >
> I just don't see a way that we can specify how a processor should do
> this: you need the intelligence of the person writing the pipeline to
> be able to tell which namespaces need to be used, which means we need:

Agreed.

>   (a) a way of passing in namespace bindings to either a step (my
> preference) or individual options (which I think is too complicated).

Agreed -- that's what the Markup pipeline language does.  If you
supply an option whose value is/includes prefixed names, you must
accompany it with, as it were, <p:bind prefix="..." namespace="..."/>

>   (b) a way of picking up the namespaces that were in scope when a
> pipeline was invoked

I'm not sure I understand, but maybe this means that if you can
specify option name/value pairs at invociation (e.g. on the command
line), you need to be able to specify prefix bindings as well, in
which case I agree.

>   (c) a way of getting the in-scope namespace declarations within a
> pipeline, in order to use those in the set that you then pass into
> another step (this can be done with a <p:namespaces> step analogous to
> the <p:parameters> one).

I don't see the need for this. . .

ht
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Received on Thursday, 7 June 2007 09:41:10 UTC