RE: The XProc Quine

> For my money, there's something that's not quite as aesthetically
> pleasing about these types of quines that invoke a system call to read
> and print out the source document.  It seems like cheating.

It indeed does. Which is why I didn't call my pipeline a quine. (I just created it as an example of using an empty URI in p:document in a discussion on the XProc WG mailing list, and didn't think of it as a quine at all.)

Vojtech

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Received on Friday, 12 August 2011 14:50:05 UTC