- From: Innovimax W3C <innovimax+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:59:11 +0200
- To: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
- Cc: XProc WG <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAAK2GfEovG+2vxeSodo8ZcvyUSzDkj1Ya02etK-81ck3Betffg@mail.gmail.com>
Two specs seems ok to me (as "XPath" and "Function and Operator") Mohamed On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: > Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> writes: > > > On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:25:45 -0500 Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: > > > >> Straw proposal, three REC track documents: > >> > >> XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language > >> XProc 2.0: Required Step Vocabulary > >> XProc 2.0: Optional Step Vocabulary > >> > > > > What's the benefit of having optional steps on the rec track? > > Mostly interoperability. If you implement the p:xquery step, you are > expected to do it as we described. > > We could have two documents: > > XProc 2.0: An XML Pipeline Language > XProc 2.0: Step Vocabulary > > And put them all in one spec. > > > And, what's being achieved by having separate documents? Two separate > editors? > > Some sense of editorial correctness, I think, and the option of > revising them on different timelines. > > > A down side for me is that it's already difficuly to learn XProc, and > > having to know whether a step is optional or required makes life > > harder. Maybe the answer is that we should make a wiki at w3.org with > > a page for each step, where there could be examples too? In that case > > I don't see it making much difference, although we might need to issue > > a patent exclusion (and if a charter change is needed I'm vehemently > > opposed :-) ) > > Wiki. Blech. > > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman Walsh > Lead Engineer > MarkLogic Corporation > Phone: +1 512 761 6676 > www.marklogic.com > -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 9 52 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €
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