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

Alex Muir <alex.g.muir@gmail.com> writes:
> So you could have some <p:put  id="fish"> when  <p:get name="fish> or
> <p:put-many... get-many to create or iterate on a collection. clearly
> that concept could be expanded upon

The base URI of the document already provides the ID, I think. (It's
not always exactly what you want but has the huge advantage that you
can retrieve it from the cache in a href="" statement in some
stylesheet or XInclude statement.)

In fact, XML Calabash implements this if you use my caching resolver.

> Also there is something complex about input/results and ports that
> probably could be simplified. Does a developer really want to be
> bothered with a message that you need to specify your result
> differently somehow somewhere in the document... (been a while so I'm
> not being specific here) But really for the most part I tend to think
> what is coming out of the last step or what I specify to save in some
> location is what is specifying the result of a pipeline not some
> declaration at the top of the document for example..

The default is to use the last step, so I think I'd need a concrete
example to understand your point.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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