Re: XProc Usability (was Re: New to Xproc Question : conditionnal "output port" definition?)

Geert Josten <geert.josten@daidalos.nl> writes:
> It would already help a lot if the specs could be tuned such that you
> can rely more on default behavior, or could write things with less
> characters:
> - You would not need the p:with-option stuff if attribute value templates were supported from the start.

Yes, we should have done AVTs.

> - Things like generating empty input taking up 5 lines (p:identity
> with p:input with p:empty inside), can't that be done shorter?

When do you need this? Can you show me a small example?

> - Maybe something specific to XMLCalabash, but why can't I just do
> p:variable with a p:pipe connecting to parameters port? It complains
> about context, forcing me to pipe the parameters through a
> p:parameters first, and rerouting input around the p:parameters as
> well.

Uhm. Can you show me an example of the problem?

> - Lot's of extensions don't produce output, but do take input without
> doing much with that (most notably the file io extensions for
> example). Why not just let them do identity transform as well, making
> it much easier to do a large sequence of such steps..

That's an intersting idea. The exproc.org steps are community driven.
If we decide they should do the identity transform, we can do that.

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                                          norm

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