- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:00 +0000
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Cc: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norman Walsh writes: > / Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say: > > | On the other hand, I understand Henry's (and Richard's) urge to > | make/keep simple pipelines simple. > | > | So what about a rule that says "if a pipeline is called *at all* then > | it must have declared its inputs and outputs explicitly". This keeps > | the neat defaulting rules for the common/simple case of a single > | pipeline to do a quick job, but means that if you're planning to > | expose your pipelines for other people to call, then you have to take > | the extra step of declaring the inputs and outputs to the pipeline. > > That seems reasonable to me. Is this compromise still judged viable? I would definitely prefer it to the proposed universal requirement for input and output declarations. . . ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHPF/gkjnJixAXWBoRAlvcAJ9MEsN7fPRdHFNccLz0+vxSrujXigCfQyVP KewDNVTO5H3jbsyNX4uUMbk= =fv0H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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