RE: [xml-dev] what's missing in XML? What's coming?

["David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>]

Exactly.
Its "worked around" but its not directly supported.   In fact many vendor's
dont even support arbitrary XDM as parameters (###@!!!@#)  ..
   

There's no reason I can think of that should keep the primary input from
being any XDM value.


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David A. Lee
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 6:27 AM
To: David Lee
Cc: liam@w3.org; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] what's missing in XML? What's coming?


On 3 January 2012 11:15, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:
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> The *purpose* of XDM is to be the input to XQuery and XSLT. They are 
> only defined to operate over XDM instances. I think I must not be
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> Try sending a sequence, non document node or atomic type as the 
> primary input to xquery or xslt.
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> Not supported, very annoying for languages that as you say whose 
> purpose is process is processing XDM

It's worked around easily enough by using a standalone transform and
supplying it as a parameter, or by pulling it in using a combination of
unparsed-text(), some wrapper markup and a parse() extension.

I think primary input xml might die off as the language evolves.


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Andrew Welch
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