Re: Source input on p:filter

Fair enough... I forgot about empty sequence...

Now I shut up

Mohamed

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> Innovimax W3C <innovimax+w3c@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Well.. I would continue to argue that p:identity is a special case
>> because, there is no difference in with respect to processing a
>> document or a sequence of document :-)
>
> I'm not asking you to argue one way or another, it's just a discrepancy
> that strikes me as odd. Consider this choose:
>
> <p:choose>
>  <p:when test="p:value-available('filter-expr')">
>    <p:filter>
>      <p:with-option name="select" select="$filter-expr"/>
>    </p:filter>
>  </p:when>
>  <p:otherwise>
>    <p:identity>
>      <p:input port="source" select="/my/default/filter/expr"/>
>    </p:identity>
>  </p:otherwise>
> </p:choose>
>
> If the input document is a sequence, it fails if $filter-expr is
> defined and succeeds if it isn't. I don't think that's going to seem
> obvious to most users.
>
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