Re: Do pipelines have ports?

"Florent Georges" <fgeorges@fgeorges.org> writes:

>> What about this (see Section 4.1, p:pipeline):
>
>> [...]
>
>> <p:declare-step some-attributes>
>>   <p:input port='source' primary='true'/>
>>   <p:input port='parameters' kind='parameters' primary='true'/>
>
>   I think this is a defect in the WD (to have two inputs
> where @primary = true).  See:
>
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/#dt-primary-input-port
>     "A step can have at most one primary input port."

Uhm. Yeah, I see your point. When we adopted parameter input ports to
simplify the previous, broken tangle of prose that dealt with
parameters, we did introduce this slight irregularity.

I'm not sure what to do about it. I suppose some explicit discussion
of this fact would be a start.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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