RE: V.next: empty parameters

Hi Alex,

Why can't you use the following?

<p:input port="parameters">
  <p:empty/>
</p:input>

But I agree that that may still be annoying to write. 

The weird thing is that we already do default to the empty sequence for non-primary parameter input ports, but not for primary parameter input ports:

"If no explicit connection is provided for a primary parameter input port, then the port will be connected to the primary parameter input port of the pipeline which contains the step. If no connection is provided for a parameter input port other than the primary parameter input port, then the port will be connected to an empty sequence of documents."

I wonder why.

Regards,
Vojtech

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Vojtech Toman
Consultant Software Engineer
EMC | Information Intelligence Group
vojtech.toman@emc.com
http://developer.emc.com/xmltech


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Milowski [mailto:alex@milowski.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:15 AM
> To: XProc WG
> Subject: V.next: empty parameters
> 
> If I could somehow never write this again:
> 
>         <p:input port="parameters">
>             <p:inline><c:param-set/></p:inline>
>          </p:input>
> 
> life would be much, much better.
> 
> No parameters should somehow default to an empty set binding.
> 
> --
> --Alex Milowski
> "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of
> the
> inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
> considered."
> 
> Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
>

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2012 07:06:09 UTC