Re: non-matched output port

On 4/30/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>
> / Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> | For
> |
> | Head (p:head)
> | Matching Documents (p:subsequence)
> | Tail (p:tail)
> |
> | I propose to add "dual port" or "non matched" output port which will
> | output the rest in a sequence
>
> I suppose the incremental cost is small. What do others think?



Sure.

| The same for
> |
> | Delete (p:delete)
> | Replace (p:replace)
> |
> | it would generate a sequence of the node deleted or replaced in a
> sequence


As Norm pointed out, delete might not target a document.  Replace won't
work because of the same reason. There is no reason why you couldn't
replace a text node with an element.


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