More notes about the standard components

I suggest that we rename 'join-sequences' to simply 'join'.

I propose 'split'

  <p:declare-step type="p:split">
    <p:input port="source" sequence="yes"/>
    <p:output port="*"/>
  </p:declare-step>

The inverse of join.

Surely the serialize component must serialize the root element and its
attributes so that given:

<description>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>This is a chunk of XHTML.</p>
</div>
</description>

it produces:

<c:result>&lt;description>
&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
&lt;p>This is a chunk of XHTML.&lt;/p>
&lt;/div>
&lt;/description></c:result>

I think we should move the micro-operations up before the optional
components and assert that they are all required.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.