Re: Scope of step types

/ Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk> was heard to say:
|> No, I don't think that was intended. How about
|> 
|>   The scope of the names of step types is the pipeline in which they occur.
|>   The in-scope names come from types that are:
|> 
|>     * Built-in to XProc (e.g., p:pipeline, p:choose, etc.)
|>     * Declared with p:declare-step (e.g, p:xslt, p:xinclude, etc.)
|>       in the pipeline or in a p:pipeline-library imported into the
|>       pipeline.
|>     * Defined with p:pipeline imported directly or in a p:pipeline-library
|>       imported into the pipeline.
|>     * Or built-in as extensions by a particular processor.
|
| So a pipeline library can contain two pipelines that both declare steps
| called "foo"?

As I've proposed above, yes.

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                                          norm

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