RE: The XProc Quine

It works because relative URIs in p:document/@href (but also in other places) are resolved against the base URI of the containing element - which in this case is equal  to the base URI of the entire pipeline document (because nor the p:document nor any of its ancestors specify a different base URI). Therefore the p:document "returns" the pipeline document.

I would say this is a fairly expected behavior. Similar things happen also in other contexts where you need to work with relative URIs (XSLT, XQuery, ...)

The wrinkle I was talking about is that in order to run Florent's pipeline, you need to provide it with an input document or you get a dynamic error (because the implicit "source" input port of p:pipeline is a non-sequence port). My original pipeline didn't have an input port at all, so you don't have to pass any document to it. But is it is all just a very minor thing.

Regards,
Vojtech

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From: Alex Muir [mailto:alex.g.muir@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:13 PM
To: Toman, Vojtech
Cc: xproc-dev@w3.org
Subject: Re: The XProc Quine

Vojtech,

That's interesting why does an empty href <p:document href=""/> load the document itself?

Is that a common feature across other tools?

Florents example seems to work when I run it.. I don't understand the wrinkle but port law always confuses me so no surprise.

Alex

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:20 AM, <vojtech.toman@emc.com<mailto:vojtech.toman@emc.com>> wrote:
>   Excellent.  By using the appropriate shortcuts, we can even
> reduce it further:
>
>     <p:pipeline xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" version="1.0">
>      <p:identity>
>       <p:input port="source"><p:document href=""/></p:input>
>      </p:identity>
>     </p:pipeline>
>
Yes, except for the small wrinkle that in order to run this pipeline, you would have to provide some input to its "source" input port.

Regards,
Vojtech


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