Re: Reading ports from XPath functions

Romain Deltour <rdeltour@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Would be easier done with:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" name="main" version="1.0">
>   <p:input port="source" sequence="true"/>
>   <p:choose>
>     <p:when test="empty(p:read-port('some-step', 'result'))">
>       ...
>     </p:when>
>     <p:otherwise>
>       ...
>     </p:otherwise>
>   </p:choose>
> </p:declare-step>

Yeah, that use case is pretty compelling.

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                                          norm

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