Re: p:for-each

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:

>> A sequence of documents is...a sequence of zero or more documents.
>
> For which the spec has no definition of 'document'. My usage, of
> a file within a directory, is a reasonable interpretation lacking
> existing clarity within the spec as I see it.

Really? You think the notion of XML document is insufficiently
rigerous in the spec? Given what we say in paragraph 3 of 2.2 Inputs
and Outputs, would we really improve things if we added something
along these lines:

  XProc processes Infoset Document Information Items as XML documents

The spec makes it perfectly clear, I think, that how you get from the
outside world (files in a directory) into the initial pipeline step is
implementation defined.

In the case of Calabash, you can use -isource multiple times to make a
sequence. Perhaps I should also allow -isource=*.xml, I think that
makes sense.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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