- From: mozer <xmlizer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:24:16 +0100
- To: Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@gmail.com>, XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
Alex, Coming up with a meaningful name is always a challenge. Changing it so late in the game (more than 5 years after it has been coined), is even harder In every language, there is such instruction that has a name on which people always trip over p:viewport might be in this category, the question is now how can we live with it ? Xmlizer On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks.. > > btw is there a way to vote for changing the name of p:viewport > > I'm not certain if the graphics terminology influenced the naming or if that > is coincidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewport > > What would a developer think p:viewport does intuitively? If random xml > developer not familiar with xproc was asked what they were going to do when > viewing a port on their xml input what would they say? > > There may be a better term related to what is happening with the xml input > such that a selection of the document is being modified. > > p:modifySubtree > p:modifyNode > > Maybe p:modifyNode is the most intuitive I can come up with brainstorming > here.. > > Let me know your thoughts > Regards > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jostein Austvik Jacobsen > <josteinaj@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Initially I would look at >> p:viewport: http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/#p.viewport -- "It is a compound step >> that processes a single document, applying its subpipeline to one or more >> subtrees of the document." >> Regards >> Jostein >> 2011/2/1 Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> >>> >>> I know that p:exec can be applied to a whole document within the pipeline >>> however I'm unaware if it can be applied to one part of a document. >>> >>> Given an input that had multiple html documents and text documents >>> <DOC> >>> <TEXT id="1"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> <HTML id="2"> >>> ... >>> </HTML> >>> <TEXT id="3"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> <HTML id="4"> >>> ... >>> </HTML> >>> </DOC> >>> >>> Is it possible to use say within a loop apply a p:exec to only the HTML >>> parts say with "w3m" within the p:exec resulting with a document that has >>> the HTML parts converted into TEXT >>> >>> <DOC> >>> <TEXT id="1"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> <TEXT id="2"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> <TEXT id="3"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> <TEXTid="4"> >>> ... >>> </TEXT> >>> </DOC> >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> -- >>> Alex >>> ----- >>> Currently: >>> Freelance Software Engineer 6+ yrs exp >>> >>> Previously: >>> https://sites.google.com/a/utg.edu.gm/alex/ >>> >>> >>> A Bafila, is two rivers flowing together as one: >>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bafila/125611807494851 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Alex > ----- > Currently: > Freelance Software Engineer 6+ yrs exp > > Previously: > https://sites.google.com/a/utg.edu.gm/alex/ > > > A Bafila, is two rivers flowing together as one: > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bafila/125611807494851 > > > >
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