- From: Graham Seaman <graham@theseamans.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:39:01 +0100
- To: James Fuller <jim@webcomposite.com>
- CC: XProc Dev <xproc-dev@w3.org>
On 17/04/14 11:33, James Fuller wrote: > Graham, > > nice job sticking with it ... xproc has a difficult learning curve > which we (as in the W3C XML Processing WG) are trying to address in > vnext. > > Be interested in your fresh impressions, to see what you found > confusing, useful , etc. > > cheers, Jim Fuller > I'd say the thing which has probably slowed me down most is an inability to do simple debugging easily: a p:message as an equivalent to a 'print' statement in other languages, or a more flexible p:log. I've now more or less managed to create the pipeline that I wanted. However, since this pipeline is meant to carry out a series of validation steps the difficulty in getting back diagnostic information when something unexpected goes wrong does limit its usefulness. Looking forward to seeing the new version! Cheers Graham
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