V.next idea: option/parameter typing and error handling from Alex Milowski on 2012-01-31 (public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org from January 2012)

From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:50:08 +0000
To: XProc WG <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABp3FN+fyS4zNWxM0Gugz+zPXvAwduN7_7AdjheFNZeWCMEWgA@mail.gmail.com>

Also, as I'm binding certain typed values to options (e.g. pulling a
start time off the query parameters), I'd really like an easy way to
say:

  "This option is typed as xs:dateTime.  If the value does not cast
properly, run this other part of the pipeline."

One simple way we could accomplish this is to allow type errors within
a certain portion of the pipeline to be caught and processed somehow.

-- 
--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

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