Re: p:option not required without default value

Here is what XSLT 2.0 does

[[
If an optional parameter has no select  attribute and has an empty
sequence constructor, and if there is no as attribute, then the
default value of the parameter is a zero length string.
]]

Mohamed

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Norman Walsh writes:
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>> "Innovimax SARL" <innovimax@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> Nothing is said in the spec about what to do if we have the following
>>> pipeline
>>>
>>> <p:pipeline xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" xmlns:ix="
>>> http://www.innovimax.fr/ns">
>>>     <p:declare-step type="ix:test">
>>>         <p:input port="source"/>
>>>         <p:output port="result"/>
>>>         <p:option name="not-required-no-default"/>
>>>         <p:choose>
>>>             <p:when test="$not-required-no-default">
>>>                 <p:identity/>
>>>             </p:when>
>>>             <p:otherwise>
>>>                 <p:filter select="/*"/>
>>>             </p:otherwise>
>>>         </p:choose>
>>>     </p:declare-step>
>>>     <ix:test/>
>>> </p:pipeline>
>>
>> You're right. That either has to be an error or we have to specify what
>> the default default value for options.
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> The empty node set.  That way testing it will fail, which is surely
> what you want.
>
> Hmm.  Problem is that there is no XPath equivalent of 'boundp'. . .
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> I can see arguments either way.  Flbssst. . .
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> ht
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