Re: Possible new XProc 1.1 step: p:template

At today's telcon, I mumbled something about having planned to
investigate the XQuery solution. Here it is. It doesn't have the match
semantics that Henry described, but it might be less cumbersome than
several consecutive "add-attribute" and "string-replace" steps.
Sometimes.

<p:declare-step version='1.0' name="main"
                xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"
                xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc">
<p:input port="source"/>
<p:output port="result"/>
<p:input port="parameters" kind="parameter"/>

<p:variable name="vname" select="'my value'"/>

<p:xquery>
  <p:input port="query">
    <p:inline>
      <c:query><![CDATA[
        declare variable $foo external;
        declare variable $bar external;

        <doc avalue="{$foo}">{$bar}</doc>
      ]]></c:query>
    </p:inline>
  </p:input>
  <p:with-param name="foo" select="'some value'"/>
  <p:with-param name="bar" select="$vname"/>
</p:xquery>

</p:declare-step>

Of course, it's equally easy in XSLT. (For whatever definition of "easy"
you think applies in this case.)

<p:declare-step version='1.0' name="main"
                xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc">
<p:input port="source"/>
<p:output port="result"/>
<p:input port="parameters" kind="parameter"/>

<p:variable name="vname" select="'my value'"/>

<p:xslt template-name="start">
  <p:input port="stylesheet">
    <p:inline>
      <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                      version="2.0">

        <xsl:param name="foo" required="yes"/>
        <xsl:param name="bar" required="yes"/>

        <xsl:template name="start">
          <doc avalue="{$foo}">
            <xsl:value-of select="$bar"/>
          </doc>
        </xsl:template>
      </xsl:stylesheet>
    </p:inline>
  </p:input>
  <p:with-param name="foo" select="'some value'"/>
  <p:with-param name="bar" select="$vname"/>
</p:xslt>

</p:declare-step>

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
Lead Engineer
MarkLogic Corporation
www.marklogic.com