Re: Possible new XProc 1.1 step: p:template

"Toman_Vojtech@emc.com" <Toman_Vojtech@emc.com> writes:

>> "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > I realise that part of the reason for wanting this step is a sort of
>> > atavistic desire to "avoid launching" XSLT or XQuery. . .
>> 
>> FWIW, in my implementation at least, launching XSLT or XQuery is
>> reasonably close to free...
>
> Lucky you :) But I think there is still value in having this
> step/feature, for instance for "minimalistic" or "light-weight"
> implementations that support neither XSLT or XQuery. Plus the template
> step will most likely be more streamable than XSLT or XQuery

Yes, I wasn't arguing against doing it.

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