Re: request as data source in transformation?

Liam,
"XProc pipelines are not limited to a linear succession of steps. They can
fork and merge"
from this definition the data source fits more into XSLT concept than into
XProc.

Also when it goes to Declarative Web Application, the 1-way transactional
transformation nature of XSLT fits better.
With all the flexibility of XProc, I do not see it fit into DWA.

PS. My target here is to find the common denominator of web app needs and
XML stack. XSLT so far is suitable. XPath-only or XProc are not. We can
discuss the misfit on xproc-dev@w3.org if folks are interested.


On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 6:54 PM Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 16:12 -0800, Sasha Firsov wrote:
> > I am trying to avoid the exact syntax proposal at this stage. We need
> > to
> > have an agreement on including DAL as one of the essential pieces of
> > XSLT
> > first.
>
> Are you sure that you are not trying to reinvent xproc 3, the pipeline
> language?
>
> liam
>
> >
>
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