Re: Reading ports from XPath functions

Looks like a good simplification. Would that do away with pipes completely
then?

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> 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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