Re: Recommendation needed: how to provide a user-defined step (pipeline) with a subset of information

"Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> writes:
> I don't want to send all this to my user-defined step; I only want
> to send Age and State.

If you think that you might eventually want to extract more information,
I'd be tempted to send an XML document that contains just he extracted
pieces you need:

  <source-data>
    <state>MA</state>
    <age>41</age>
  </source-data>

and extract state and age from that inside your step. Then you can write
another step that transforms applications into <source-data> documents.

I might also use options.

I don't think I'd have made an input for state and an input for age, at
least that wouldn't have been my first approach.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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