XProc 3.0: Standard Step Library

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Abstract

This specification describes the standard step vocabulary of XProc 3.0: An XML Pipeline Language.

Status of this Document

This document is an editor's draft that has no official standing.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document.

This document is derived from XProc: An XML Pipeline Language published by the W3C.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

This specification describes the standard, required atomic XProc steps. A machine-readable description of these steps may be found in steps.xpl.

Many atomic steps are available for [XProc 3.0]. They are described in several specifications. This specification describes the general background common to all steps. A conformant processor must implement all of the steps in this specification. Additional steps may also be implemented.

The types given for options should be understood as follows:

  • Types in the XML Schema namespace, identified as QNames with the xs: prefix, as per the XML Schema specification with one exception. Anywhere an xs:QName is specified, an EQName is allowed.

  • XPathExpression: As a string per [W3C XML Schema: Part 2], including whitespace normalization, and the further requirement to be a conformant Expression per [XPath 3.1].

  • XSLTSelectionPattern: An XSLT pattern.

  • XPathSequenceType: An XPath sequence type.

  • ContentType: A media type as defined in [Media Types].

  • ContentTypes: As a whitespace separated list of media types as defined in [Media Types].

Option values are often expressed using the shortcut syntax. In these cases, the option shortcuts are generally treated as value templates. However, for options of type map() or array(), an expression is required (there is no non-expression string which can ever be a legal value for a map or array). Given that every value entered this way will have to be a value template, and consequently every curly brace contained within the expression will have to be escaped, values of type map or array are defined to be expressions directly.

Some aspects of documents are generally unchanged by steps:

  • When a step in this library produces an output document, the base URI of the output is the base URI of the step's primary input document unless the step's process explicitly sets an xml:base attribute or the step's description explicitly states how the base URI is constructed.

  • Each step describes how it modifies the document properties of the documents that flow through it.

    A great many steps indicate that they preserve some or all of the properties of the input document. It should be noted that in some cases the transformation performed by the step will violate the condition associated with some property. In general, the steps cannot know this and the pipeline author is responsible for managing the properties with greater care in this case.

Also, in this specification, several steps use this element for result information:

<c:result>
    string
</c:result>

When a step uses an XPath to compute an option value, the XPath context is as defined in [XProc 3.0].

When a step specifies a particular version of a technology, implementations must implement that version or a subsequent version that is backwards compatible with that version. At user-option, they may implement other non-backwards compatible versions.

In this specification the words must, must not, should, should not, may and recommended are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119].

2 The required steps

A conformant processor must support all of these steps.

2.1 p:add-attribute

The p:add-attribute step adds a single attribute to a set of matching elements. The input document specified on the source is processed for matches specified by the match pattern in the match option. For each of these matches, the attribute whose name is specified by the attribute-name option is set to the attribute value specified by the attribute-value option.

The resulting document is produced on the result output port and consists of a exact copy of the input with the exception of the matched elements. Each of the matched elements is copied to the output with the addition of the specified attribute with the specified value.

<p:declare-step type="p:add-attribute">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="attribute-name" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>
     <p:option name="attribute-value" required="true" as="xs:string"/>
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if the match pattern matches a node which is not an element.

The value of the attribute-value option must be a legal attribute value according to XML.

If an attribute with the same name as the expanded name from the attribute-name option exists on the matched element, the value specified in the attribute-value option is used to set the value of that existing attribute. That is, the value of the existing attribute is changed to the attribute-value value.

Note

If multiple attributes need to be set on the same element(s), the p:set-attributes step can be used to set them all at once.

This step cannot be used to add namespace declarations. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0059) if the QName value in the attribute-name option uses the prefix “xmlns” or any other prefix that resolves to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. Note, however, that while namespace declarations cannot be added explicitly by this step, adding an attribute whose name is in a namespace for which there is no namespace declaration in scope on the matched element may result in a namespace binding being added by namespace fixup.

If an attribute named xml:base is added or changed, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.2 p:add-xml-base

The p:add-xml-base step exposes the base URI via explicit xml:base attributes. The input document from the source port is replicated to the result port with xml:base attributes added to or corrected on each element as specified by the options on this step.

<p:declare-step type="p:add-xml-base">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="all" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>       
     <p:option name="relative" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>   
</p:declare-step>

The value of the all option must be a boolean.

The value of the relative option must be a boolean.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0058) if the all and relative options are both true.

The p:add-xml-base step modifies its input as follows:

  • For the document element: force the element to have an xml:base attribute with the document's [base URI] property's value as its value.

  • For other elements:

    • If the all option has the value true, force the element to have an xml:base attribute with the element's [base URI] value as its value.

    • If the element's [base URI] is different from the its parent's [base URI], force the element to have an xml:base attribute with the following value: if the value of the relative option is true, a string which, when resolved against the parent's [base URI], will give the element's [base URI], otherwise the element's [base URI].

    • Otherwise, if there is an xml:base attribute present, remove it.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.3 p:cast-content-type

The p:cast-content-type step changes the media type of its input.

<p:declare-step type="p:cast-content-type">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:option name="content-type" required="true" as="xs:string"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
</p:declare-step>

The input document is transformed from one media type to another. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0070) if the supplied content-type is not a valid media type of the form “type/subtype+ext”. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0071) if the p:cast-content-type step cannot perform the requested cast.

The parameters can be used to supply parameters to control casting. The semantics of the keys and the allowed values for these keys are implementation-defined. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0079) if the map parameters contains an entry whose key is defined by the implementation and whose value is not valid for that key.

  • Casting from one XML media type to another simply changes the “content-type” document property.

  • Casting from an HTML media type to an XML media type, if the input document is already an XPath data model document, simply changes the “content-type” document property. Casting an HTML document that isn’t already an XPath data model document into XML is implementation-defined.

  • Casting from an XML media type to an HTML media type, simply changes the “content-type” document property.

  • Casting from a JSON media type to an XML media type, converts the JSON into XML. The precise nature of the conversion from JSON to XML is implementation-defined. If the input document is a text node or other string representation, implementations should use fn:json-to-xml by default.

  • Casting from an XML media type to a JSON media type, converts the XML into JSON. The precise nature of the conversion from XML to JSON is implementation-defined. If the input document is an XML representation of JSON as defined in [XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1], implementations must use fn:xml-to-json by default. If the input document has a c:param-set document element, a map must be returned that represents the document's c:param elements.

  • Casting from a non-XML media type to an XML media type produces an XML document with a c:data document element. The original media type will be preserved in the content-type attribute on the c:data element.

    <c:data
      content-type = ContentType
      charset? = string
      encoding? = string>
        string
    </c:data>

    The content of the c:data element is the base64 encoded representation of the non-XML content.

  • Casting from an XML media type to a non-XML media type must support the case where the input document is a c:data document. The resulting document will have the specified media type and a representation that is the content of the c:data element after decoding the base64 encoded content.

    It is a dynamic error (err:XC0072) if the c:data contains content is not a valid base64 string.

    It is a dynamic error (err:XC0073) if the c:data element does not have a content-type attribute.

    It is a dynamic error (err:XC0074) if the content-type is supplied and is not the same as the content-type specified on the c:data element.

    Casting from an XML media type to a non-XML media type when the input document is not a c:data document is implementation-defined.

  • Casting from one non-XML media type to another non-XML media type is implementation-defined.

In all cases except when the input document is a c:data element, it is a dynamic error (err:XC075) if the content-type is not supplied.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved except the content-type property which is updated accordingly.

2.4 p:compare

The p:compare step compares two documents for equality.

<p:declare-step type="p:compare">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:input port="alternate" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:output port="differences" content-types="*/*" sequence="true"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
     <p:option name="method" as="xs:QName?"/>                      
     <p:option name="fail-if-not-equal" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
</p:declare-step>

This step takes single documents on each of two ports and compares them. If method is not specified, or if deep-equal is specified, the comparison uses fn:deep-equal (as defined in [XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1]). Implementations of p:compare must support the deep-equal method; other supported methods are implementation-defined. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0076) if the comparison method specified in p:compare is not supported by the implementation. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0077) if the media types of the documents supplied are incompatible with the comparison method.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0019) if the documents are not equal according to the specified comparison method, and the value of the fail-if-not-equal option is true. If the documents are equal, or if the value of the fail-if-not-equal option is false, a c:result document is produced with contents true if the documents are equal, otherwise false.

If fail-if-not-equal is false, and the documents differ, an implementation-defined summary of the differences between the two documents may appear on the differences port.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.5 p:count

The p:count step counts the number of documents in the source input sequence and returns a single document on result containing that number. The generated document contains a single c:result element whose contents is the string representation of the number of documents in the sequence.

<p:declare-step type="p:count">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*" sequence="true"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="limit" as="xs:integer" select="0"/>           
</p:declare-step>

If the limit option is specified and is greater than zero, the p:count step will count at most that many documents. This provides a convenient mechanism to discover, for example, if a sequence consists of more than 1 document, without requiring every single document to be buffered before processing can continue.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.6 p:delete

The p:delete step deletes items specified by a match pattern from the source input document and produces the resulting document, with the deleted items removed, on the result port.

<p:declare-step type="p:delete">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. A match pattern may match multiple items to be deleted.

If an element is selected by the match option, the entire subtree rooted at that element is deleted.

This step cannot be used to remove namespaces. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0062) if the match option matches a namespace node. Also, note that deleting an attribute named xml:base does not change the base URI of the element on which it occurred.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.7 p:directory-list

The p:directory-list step produces a list of the contents of a specified directory.

<p:declare-step type="p:directory-list">
     <p:output port="result" content-type="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="path" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="detailed" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>  
     <p:option name="include-filter" as="xs:string*"/>             <!-- RegularExpression -->
     <p:option name="exclude-filter" as="xs:string*"/>             <!-- RegularExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

Conformant processors must support directory paths whose scheme is file. It is implementation-defined what other schemes are supported by p:directory-list, and what the interpretation of 'directory', 'file' and 'contents' is for those schemes.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0017) if the absolute path does not identify a directory. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0012) if the contents of the directory path are not available to the step due to access restrictions in the environment in which the pipeline is run.

If the detailed option is true, the pipeline author is requesting additional information about the matching entries, see Section 2.7.1, “Directory list details”.

If present, the value of the include-filter or exclude-filter option must be a list of regular expression as specified in [XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1], section 7.61 “Regular Expression Syntax”.

If any include-filter pattern matches a directory entry's name, the entry is included in the output. If any exclude-filter pattern matches a directory entry's name, the entry is excluded in the output. If both options are provided, the include filter is processed first, then the exclude filter. As a result: an item is included if it matches (at least) one of the include-filter values and none of the exclude-filter values.

Note

There is no way to specify a list of values using attribute value templates. If the option shortcut syntax is used to provide the include-filter or exclude-filter option, it will consist of a single regular expression. To specify a list of regular expressions, you must use the p:with-option syntax.

The result document produced for the specified directory path has a c:directory document element whose base URI is the directory path and whose name attribute is the last segment of the directory path (that is, the directory's (local) name).

<c:directory
  name = string>
    (c:file |
     c:directory |
     c:other)*
</c:directory>

Its contents are determined as follows, based on the entries in the directory identified by the directory path. For each entry in the directory, if either no filter was specified, or the (local) name of the entry matches the filter pattern, a c:file, a c:directory, or a c:other element is produced, as follows:

  • A c:directory is produced for each subdirectory not determined to be special.

  • A c:file is produced for each file not determined to be special.

    <c:file
      name = string
      content-types? = ContentTypes />

  • Any file or directory determined to be special by the p:directory-list step may be output using a c:other element but the criteria for marking a file as special are implementation-defined.

    <c:other
      name = string />

When a directory entry is a subdirectory, that directory's entries are not output as part of that entry's c:directory. A user must apply this step again to the subdirectory to list subdirectory contents.

Each of the elements c:file, c:directory, and c:other has a name attribute when it appears within the top-level c:directory element, whose value is a relative IRI reference, giving the (local) file or directory name.

2.7.1 Directory list details

If detailed is false, then only the name attribute is expected on c:file, c:directory, or c:other elements. Any other attributes on c:file, c:directory, or c:other are implementation-defined.

If detailed is true, then the pipeline author is expecting additional details about each entry. The following attributes should be provided by the implementation:

readable

“true” if the entry is readable.

writable

“true” if the entry is writable.

hidden

“true” if the entry is hidden.

last-modified

The last modification time of the entry, expressed as a lexical xs:dateTime in UTC.

size

The size of the entry in bytes.

The precise meaning of these properties are implementation-defined and may vary according to the URI scheme of the path. If the value of an attribute is “false” or if it has no meaningful value, the attribute may be omitted.

Any other attributes on c:file, c:directory, or c:other are implementation-defined.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.8 p:error

The p:error step generates a dynamic error using the input provided to the step.

<p:declare-step type="p:error">
     <p:input port="source" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml text/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml text/*"/>
     <p:option name="code" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>         
</p:declare-step>

This step uses the document provided on its input as the content of the error raised. An instance of the c:errors element will be produced on the error output port, as is always the case for dynamic errors. The error generated can be caught by a p:try just like any other dynamic error.

For authoring convenience, the p:error step is declared with a single, primary output port. With respect to connections, this port behaves like any other output port even though nothing can ever appear on it since the step always fails.

For example, given the following invocation:

<p:error xmlns:my="http://www.example.org/error"
         name="bad-document" code="my:unk12">
   <p:input port="source">
     <p:inline>
       <message>The document element is unknown.</message>
     </p:inline>
   </p:input>
</p:error>

The error vocabulary element (and document) generated on the error output port would be:

<c:errors xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step"
          xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
          xmlns:my="http://www.example.org/error">
 <c:error name="bad-document" type="p:error"
          code="my:unk12"><message>The document element is unknown.</message>
</c:error>
</c:errors>

The href, line and column, or offset, might also be present on the c:error to identify the location of the p:error element in the pipeline.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.9 p:escape-markup

The p:escape-markup step applies XML serialization to the children of the document element and replaces those children with their serialization. The outcome is a single element with text content that represents the "escaped" syntax of the children as they were serialized.

<p:declare-step type="p:escape-markup">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="serialization" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>  
</p:declare-step>

This step supports the standard serialization options as specified in [Serialization]. These options control how the output markup is produced before it is escaped.

For example, the input:

<description>
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>This is a chunk of XHTML.</p>
</div>
</description>

produces:

<description>
&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;p>This is a chunk of XHTML.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
</description>

Note

The result of this step is an XML document that contains the Unicode characters that are the characters that result from escaping the input. It is not encoded characters in a serialized octet stream, therefore, the serialization options related to encoding characters (byte-order-mark, encoding, and normalization-form) do not apply. They are omitted from the standard serialization options on this step.

By default, this step must not generate an XML declaration in the escaped result.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.10 p:file-copy

The p:file-copy step copies a file.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check the error codes. Were borrowed from p:load and p:store.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-copy">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="target" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>      
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-copy step copies the file or directory named in href to the new name specified in target. If the target is a directory, the step attempts to move the file into that directory, preserving its base name.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href or target option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href or target is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-copy in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the copy is successful, the step returns a c:result element containing the absolute URI of the target.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file or directory.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XC0050) if the URI scheme of the target option is not supported or the file or directory cannot be copied to the specified location.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.11 p:file-delete

The p:file-delete step deletes a file or a directory.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-delete">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="recursive" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/> 
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-delete step attempts to delete the file or directory named in href.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-delete in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If href specifies a directory, it can only be deleted if the recursive option is true or if the specified directory is empty.

If the delete is successful, the step returns a c:result element containing the absolute URI of the deleted file or directory.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file or directory.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XXXXXX) if an attempt is made to delete a non-empty directory and the recursive option was set to false.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.12 p:file-head

The p:file-head step returns lines from the beginning of a text file.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

Norm, offline at the moment, asks: why does this step return XML instead of text?

<p:declare-step type="p:file-head">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="count" required="true" as="xs:integer"/>      
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-head step returns lines of the file named in the href option:

  • If the count option is positive, the p:file-head step returns the first count lines

  • If the count option is zero, the p:file-head step returns all lines

  • If the count option is negative, the p:file-head step returns all lines except the first count lines

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-head in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

The step returns a c:result element containing one c:line child element for each line. Lines are identified as described in XML, 2.11 End-of-Line Handling

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XXXXXX) if the file named in the href option does not appear to be a text file. The exact conditions that constitute “does not appear to be” are implementation-defined.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.13 p:file-info

The p:file-info step returns information about a file, directory or other file system object.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-info">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-info step returns information about the file, directory or other file system object named in the href option.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-info in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the href option is not a file: URI, the result is implementation defined.

If the href option is a file: URI, the step returns:

  • If href option references a file: A c:file element with standard attributes (see below).

  • If href option references a directory: A c:directory element with standard attributes (see below).

  • If href option references any other file system object: Implementation defined (for example an c:other or c:device element). It is advised to use the standard attributes (see below) if applicable.

The following attributes are standard on a returned c:file or c:directory element. All attributes are optional and must be absent if not applicable. Additional implementation-defined attributes may be present, but they must be in a namespace.

AttributeTypeDescription
readablexs:booleantrue if the object is readable.
writablexs:booleantrue if the object file is writable.
hiddenxs:booleantrue if the object is hidden.
last-modifiedxs:dateTimeThe last modification time of the object expressed in UTC.
sizexs:integerThe size of the object in bytes.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file, directory or other file system object.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.14 p:file-mkdir

The p:file-mkdir step creates a directory.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-mkdir">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-mkdir create the directory named in the href option. If this includes more than one directory component, all of the intermediate components are created. The path separator is implementation-defined.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-mkdir in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the create is successful, the step returns a c:result element containing the absolute URI of the directory created.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.15 p:file-move

The p:file-move step moves a file or directory.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check the error codes. Were borrowed from p:load and p:store.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-move">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="target" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>      
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-move step moves the file or directory named in href to the new location specified in target. If the target option specifies an existing directory, the step attempts to move the file or directory into that directory, preserving its base name.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href or target option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href or target is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-move in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the href option specifies a device or other special kind of object, the results are implementation-defined.

If the move is successful, the step returns a c:result element containing the absolute URI of the target.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file or directory.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XXXXXX) if the resource referenced by the target option is an existing file or other file system object.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XC0050) if the URI scheme of the target option is not supported or the file or directory cannot be moved to the specified location.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.16 p:file-tail

The p:file-tail step returns lines from the end of a text file.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-tail">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="count" required="true" as="xs:integer"/>      
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-tail step returns lines of the file named in the href option:

  • If the count option is positive, the p:file-tail step returns the last count lines

  • If the count option is zero, the p:file-tail step returns all lines

  • If the count option is negative, the p:file-tail step returns all lines except the last count lines

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-tail in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

The step returns a c:result element containing one c:line child element for each line. Lines are identified as described in XML, 2.11 End-of-Line Handling

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XXXXXX) if the file named in the href option does not appear to be a text file. The exact conditions that constitute “does not appear to be” are implementation-defined.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.17 p:file-tempfile

The p:file-tempfile step creates a temporary file.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check the error codes. ANd is the name ok? p:file-create-tempfile sounds better to me?

I added the option to leave out the href option and have the tempfile created in the system's temp directory. Ok?

<p:declare-step type="p:file-tempfile">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" as="xs:anyURI?"/>                       
     <p:option name="suffix" as="xs:string?"/>                     
     <p:option name="prefix" as="xs:string?"/>                     
     <p:option name="delete-on-exit" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-tempfile creates a temporary file. The temporary file is guaranteed not to already exist when the step is called.

If the href option is specified it must be the URI of an existing directory. The temporary file is created here. If there is no href option specified the location of the temporary file is implementation defined, usually the operating system's default location for temporary files.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-tempfile in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the prefix option is specified, the filename will begin with that prefix. If the suffix option is specified, the filename will end with that suffix.

If the delete-on-exit option is true, an attempt will be made to automatically delete the temporary file when the processor terminates the pipeline. No error will be raised if this is unsuccessful.

If the temporary file creation is successful, the step returns a c:result element containing the absolute URI of this file.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.18 p:file-touch

The p:file-touch step updates the modification timestamp of a file.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

Check and amend the error codes.

<p:declare-step type="p:file-touch">
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="timestamp" as="xs:dateTime?"/>                
     <p:option name="fail-on-error" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:file-touch step updates the modification timestamp of the fiel specified in the href option.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href option value is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href option is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:file-touch in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the timestamp option is set, the file's timestamp is set to this value. Otherwise the file's timestamp is set to the current system's date and time.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is false, the step returns a c:error element which may contain additional, implementation-defined, information about the nature of the error.

If an error occurs and fail-on-error is true, one of the following errors is raised:

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by the href option does not exist, cannot be accessed or is not a file.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.19 p:filter

The p:filter step selects portions of the source document based on a (possibly dynamically constructed) XPath select expression.

<p:declare-step type="p:filter">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="select" required="true" as="xs:string"/>      <!-- XPathExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

This step behaves just like an p:input with a select expression except that the select expression is computed dynamically.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.20 p:hash

The p:hash step generates a hash, or digital “fingerprint”, for some value and injects it into the source document.

<p:declare-step type="p:hash">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
     <p:option name="value" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       
     <p:option name="algorithm" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>    
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="version" as="xs:string?"/>                    
</p:declare-step>

The value of the algorithm option must be a QName. If it does not have a prefix, then it must be one of the following values: “crc”, “md”, or “sha”.

If a version is not specified, the default version is algorithm-defined. For “crc” it is 32, for “md” it is 5, for “sha” it is 1.

A hash is constructed from the string specified in the value option using the specified algorithm and version. Implementations must support [CRC32], [MD5], and [SHA1] hashes. It is implementation-defined what other algorithms are supported. The resulting hash should be returned as a string of hexadecimal characters.

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern.

The hash of the specified value is computed using the algorithm and parameters specified. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0036) if the requested hash algorithm is not one that the processor understands or if the value or parameters are not appropriate for that algorithm.

The matched nodes are specified with the match pattern in the match option. For each matching node, the string value of the computed hash is used in the output (if more than one node matches, the same hash value is used in each match). Nodes that do not match are copied without change.

If the expression given in the match option matches an attribute, the hash is used as the new value of the attribute in the output. If the attribute is named “xml:base”, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

If the expression matches any other kind of node, the entire node (and not just its contents) is replaced by the hash.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.21 p:http-request

The p:http-request step provides for interaction with resources over HTTP or related protocols. The input document provided on the source port specifies a request by a single c:request element. This element specifies the method, resource, and other request properties as well as possibly including an entity body (content) for the request.

<p:declare-step type="p:http-request">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:option name="serialization" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>  
</p:declare-step>

The serialization option is provided to control the serialization of any content which is sent as part of the request. The effect of these options is as specified in [XProc 3.0]. See Section 2.21.2, “Request Entity body conversion” for a discussion of when serialization occurs in constructing a request.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0040) if the document element of the document that arrives on the source port is not c:request.

Editorial Note

Can the input document be JSON?

2.21.1 Specifying a request

An HTTP request is represented by a c:request element.

<c:request
  method = NCName
  href? = anyURI
  detailed? = boolean
  status-only? = boolean
  username? = string
  password? = string
  auth-method? = string
  send-authorization? = boolean
  override-content-type? = ContentType
  timeout? = positiveInteger
  fail-on-timeout? = boolean>
    (c:header*,
     (c:multipart |
      c:body)?)
</c:request>

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0006) if the method is not specified on a c:request. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0005) if the request contains a c:body or c:multipart but the method does not allow for an entity body being sent with the request.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0004) if the status-only attribute has the value true and the detailed attribute does not have the value true.

The method attribute specifies the method to be used against the IRI specified by the href attribute, e.g. GET or POST (the value is not case-sensitive). If the href attribute is not absolute, it will be resolved against the base URI of the element on which it is occurs.

Note

In the case of simple “GET” requests, implementors are encouraged to support as many protocols as practical. In particular, pipeline authors may attempt to use p:http-request to load documents with computed URIs using the file: scheme.

If the username attribute is specified, the username, password, auth-method, and send-authorization attributes are used to handle authentication according to the selected authentication method.

For the purposes of avoiding an authentication challenge, if the send-authorization attribute has the value true and the authentication method specified by the auth-method supports generation of an Authorization header without a challenge, then an Authorization header is generated and sent on the first request. If the send-authorization attribute is absent or has the value false, then the first request is sent without an Authorization header.

If the initial response to the request is an authentication challenge, the auth-method, username, password and any relevant data from the challenge are used to generate an Authorization header and the request is sent again. If that authorization fails, the request is not retried.

Appropriate values for the auth-method attribute are “Basic” or “Digest” but other values are allowed. If the authentication method is “Basic” or “Digest”, authentication is handled as per [RFC 2617]. The interpretation of auth-method values on c:request other than “Basic” or “Digest” is implementation-defined.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0003) if a username or password is specified without specifying an auth-method, if the requested auth-method isn't supported, or the authentication challenge contains an authentication method that isn't supported. All implementations are required to support "Basic" and "Digest" authentication per [RFC 2617].

The attribute timeout controls the time the XProc processor is waiting for the request to be answered. If a value is given for timeout it is taken as the number of seconds to wait for the response to be delivered. If no response is received after that time, the request is terminated.

  • It is a dynamic error (err:XC0078) if fail-on-timeout is specified as true and a value is given for timeout and the p:http-request is not finished in the time specified by timeout.

  • If fail-on-timeout is false, a c:response document with status=408 is generated.

  • If no value is given for fail-on-timeout, false is assumed. If no value is given for timeout, fail-on-timeout is ignored.

Note

Please note the difference between option p:timeout on p:http-request and the attribute timeout in combination with fail-on-timeout="true" on c:request. If the step does not finish in the set time, D0053 is raised. If the request does not finish in time and fail-on-timeout is true, C0078 is raised. The actual times after which a timeout is detected may also differ slightly.

The c:header element specifies a header name and value, either for inclusion in a request, or as received in a response.

<c:header
  name = string
  value = string />

The request is formulated from the attribute values on the c:request element and its c:header and c:multipart or c:body children, if present, and transmitted to the host (and port, if present) specified by the href attribute. The details of how the request entity body, if any, is constructed are given in Section 2.21.4, “Converting Response Entity Bodies”.

When the request is formulated, the step and/or protocol implementation may add headers as necessary to either complete the request or as appropriate for the content specified (e.g. transfer encodings). A user of this step is guaranteed that their requested headers and content will be sent with the exception of any conflicts with protocol-related headers.

The p:http-request step allows users to specify independently values that are not always independent. For example, some combinations of c:header values (e.g., Content-Type) may be inconsistent with values that the step and/or protocol implementation must set. In a few cases, the step provides more than one mechanism to specify what is actually a single value (e.g., the boundary string in multipart messages). It is a dynamic error (err:XC0020) if the the user specifies a value or values that are inconsistent with each other or with the requirements of the step or protocol.

2.21.2 Request Entity body conversion

The c:multipart element specifies a multi-part body, per [RFC 1521], either for inclusion in a request or as received in a response.

<c:multipart
  content-type = ContentType
  boundary = string>
    c:body+
</c:multipart>

In the context of a request, the media type of the c:multipart must be a multipart media type (i.e. have a main type of 'multipart'). If the content-type attribute is not specified, a value of “multipart/mixed” will be assumed. (Whether or not, and to what extent, “multipart/byte-ranges” responses are supported is implementation-defined.)

The boundary attribute is required and is used to provide a multipart boundary marker. The implementation must use this boundary marker and must prefix the value with the string “--” when formulating the multipart message. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0002) if the value starts with the string “--”.

If the boundary is also specified as a parameter in the content-type option, then the parameter value specified and the boundary value specified must be the same. If the boundary is specified in both the boundary option and the content-type option then the two values must be the same.

The c:body element holds the body or body part of the message. Each of the attributes holds controls some aspect of the encoding the request body or decoding the body element's content when the request is formulated. These are specified as follows:

<c:body
  content-type = ContentType
  encoding? = string
  id? = string
  description? = string
  disposition? = string>
    anyNode*
</c:body>

The content-type attribute specifies the media type of the body or body part, that is, the value of its Content-Type header. If the media type is not an XML type or text, the content must already be base64-encoded.

The encoding attribute controls the decoding of the element content for formulating the body. A value of base64 indicates the element's content is a base64 encoded string whose byte stream should be sent as the message body. An implementation may support encodings other than base64 but these encodings and their names are implementation-defined. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0052) if the encoding specified is not supported by the implementation.

Note

The p:http-request step provides only a single set of serialization options for XML media types. There's no direct support for sending a multipart message with two XML parts encoded differently.

For each body or body part, the id attribute specifies the value of the Content-ID header; the description attribute specifies the value of the Content-Description header; and the disposition attribute specifies the value of the Content-Disposition header.

If an entity body is to be sent as part of a request (e.g. a POST), either a c:body element, specifying the request entity body, or a c:multipart element, specifying multiple entity body parts, may be used. When c:multipart is used it may contain multiple c:body children. A c:body specifies the construction of a body or body part as follows:

If the content-type attribute does not specify an XML media type, or the encoding attribute is “base64”, then it is a dynamic error (err:XC0028) if the content of the c:body element does not consist entirely of characters, and the entity body or body part will consist of exactly those characters.

Otherwise (the content-type attribute does specify an XML media type and the encoding attribute is not 'base64'), it is a dynamic error (err:XC0022) if the content of the c:body element does not consist of exactly one element, optionally preceded and/or followed by any number of processing instructions, comments or whitespace characters, and the entity body or body part will consist of the serialization of a document node containing that content. The serialization of that document is controlled by the serialization options on the p:http-request step itself.

For example, the following input to a p:http-request step will POST a small XML document:

<c:request method="POST" href="http://example.com/someservice">
<c:body xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step" content-type="application/xml">
<doc>
<title>My document</title>
</doc>
</c:body>
</c:request>

The corresponding request should look something like this:

POST http://example.com/someservice HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-Type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<doc>
<title>My document</title>
</doc>

2.21.3 Managing the response

Note

Where do we say that for URI schemes (such as file: and ftp:) where a content type is not provided by the underlying request, the content type is implementation-dependent?

The handling of the response to the request and the generation of the step's result document is controlled by the status-only, override-content-type and detailed attributes on the c:request input.

The override-content-type attribute controls interpretation of the response's Content-Type header. If this attribute is present, the response will be treated as if it returned the Content-Type given by its value. This original Content-Type header will however be reflected unchanged as a c:header in the result document. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0030) if the override-content-type value cannot be used (e.g. text/plain to override image/png).

If the override-content-type includes an encoding parameter, then that encoding must be used to read the document.

If the status-only attribute has the value true, the result document will contain only header information. The entity of the response will not be processed to produce a c:body or c:multipart element.

The c:response element represents an HTTP response. The response's status code is encoded in the status attribute and the headers and entity body are processing into c:header and c:multipart or c:body content.

<c:response
  status? = integer>
    (c:header*,
     (c:multipart |
      c:body)?)
</c:response>

The value of the detailed attribute determines the content of the result document. If it is true, the response to the request is handled as follows:

  1. A single c:response element is produced with the status attribute containing the status of the response received.

  2. Each response header is translated into a c:header element.

  3. Unless the status-only attribute has a value true, the entity body of the response is converted into a c:body or c:multipart element via the rules given in Section 2.21.4, “Converting Response Entity Bodies”.

Otherwise (the detailed attribute is not specified or its value is false), the response to the request is handled as follows:

  1. If the media type (as determined by the override-content-type attribute or the Content-Type response header) is an XML media type, the entity is decoded if necessary, then parsed as an XML document:

    • The parser which p:http-request employs must process the external subset; all general and external parsed entities must be fully expanded.

      Editorial Note

      The requirement to process the external subset comes from p:load, we probably don't want to impose that on all p:http-request calls. Need a way to control it?

    • It may perform xml:id processing, but it must not perform any other processing, such as expanding XIncludes.

    • The parser must be conformant to Namespaces in XML.

    • Parsing the document must not fail due to validation errors.

    The resulting XML document is produced on the result output port as the entire output of the step.

  2. Otherwise, the entity body of the response is converted into a c:body or c:multipart element via the rules given in Section 2.21.4, “Converting Response Entity Bodies”.

In either case the base URI of the output document is the resolved value of the href attribute from the input c:request.

2.21.3.1 Redirects

One possible response from an HTTP request is a redirect, indicated by a status code in the three-hundred range. The precise semantics of the 3xx return codes are laid out by section 10.3 Redirection 3xx in [RFC 2616].

The p:http-request step should follow redirect requests (in a manner consistent with [RFC 2616]) if they are returned by the server.

2.21.3.2 Cookies

With one exception, in version 1.0 of XProc, the p:http-request step does not provide any standard mechanisms for managing cookies. Pipeline authors that need to preserve cookies across several p:http-request calls in the same pipeline or across multiple invocations of the same or different pipelines will have to rely on implementation-defined mechanisms.

The exception arises in the case of redirection. If a redirect response includes cookies, those cookies should be forwarded as appropriate to the redirected location when the redirection is followed.

This behavior will allow the p:http-request step to interoperate with web services that use cookies as part of an authentication protocol.

2.21.4 Converting Response Entity Bodies

The entity of a response may be multipart per [RFC 1521]. In those situations, the result document will be a c:multipart element that contains multiple c:body elements inside.

Note

Although it is technically possible for any of the individual parts of a multipart message to also be multipart, XProc does not provide a standard representation for such messages. The interpretation of a multipart message inside another multipart message is implementation-dependent.

The result of the p:http-request step is an XML document. For media types (images, binaries, etc.) that can't be represented as a sequence of Unicode characters, the response is encoded as base64 and then returned as text children of the c:body element. If the content is base64-encoded, the encoding attribute on c:body must be set to “base64”.

Editorial Note

This section hasn't been updated to reflect the fact that non-XML documents are now possible. It should probably say something like:

If the document identified has a non-XML content type, no extra processing is mandated. The number and variety of media types that an implementation can load is implementation-defined.

If the media type of the response is a text type with a charset parameter that is a Unicode character encoding (per [Unicode TR#17]) or is recognized as a non-XML media type whose contents are encoded as a sequence of Unicode characters (e.g. it has a character parameter or the definition of the media type is such that it requires Unicode), the content of the constructed c:body element is the translation of the text into a sequence of Unicode characters.

If the response is an XML media type, the content of the constructed c:body element is the result of decoding the body as necessary, then parsing it with an XML parser.

  • The parser which p:http-request employs must process the external subset; all general and external parsed entities must be fully expanded.

    Editorial Note

    The requirement to process the external subset comes from p:load, we probably don't want to impose that on all p:http-request calls. Need a way to control it?

  • It may perform xml:id processing, but it must not perform any other processing, such as expanding XIncludes.

  • The parser must be conformant to Namespaces in XML.

  • Parsing the document must not fail due to validation errors.

If the content is not well-formed, the step fails.

Editorial Note

This prose should be consolidated into a single place.

In a c:body in a response, the content-type attribute must be an exact copy of the value returned in the Content-Type header. That is, it must reflect the content type actually returned, not any override value that may have been specified, and it must include any parameters returned by the server.

In the case of a multipart response, the same rules apply when constructing a c:body element for each body part encountered.

Note

Given the above description, any content identified as text/html will be encoded as (escaped) text or base64-encoded in the c:body element, as HTML isn't always well-formed XML. A user can attempt to convert such content into XML using the p:unescape-markup step.

2.21.5 HTTP Request Example

A simple form might be posted as follows:

<c:request method="POST" href="http://www.example.com/form-action" xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step">
<c:body content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
name=W3C&amp;spec=XProc
</c:body>
</c:request>

and if the response was an XHTML document, the result document would be:

<c:response status="200" xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step">
<c:header name="Date" value=" Wed, 09 May 2007 23:12:24 GMT"/>
<c:header name="Server" value="Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/4.4.5"/>
<c:header name="Vary" value="negotiate,accept"/>
<c:header name="TCN" value="choice"/>
<c:header name="P3P" value="policyref='http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml'"/>
<c:header name="Cache-Control" value="max-age=600"/>
<c:header name="Expires" value="Wed, 09 May 2007 23:22:24 GMT"/>
<c:header name="Last-Modified" value="Tue, 08 May 2007 16:10:49 GMT"/>
<c:header name="ETag" value="'4640a109;42380ddc'"/>
<c:header name="Accept-Ranges" value="bytes"/>
<c:header name="Keep-Alive" value="timeout=2, max=100"/>
<c:header name="Connection" value="Keep-Alive"/>
<c:body content-type="application/xhtml+xml">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>OK</title></head>
<body><p>OK!</p></body>
</html>
</c:body>
</c:response>

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.22 p:identity

The p:identity step makes a verbatim copy of its input available on its output.

<p:declare-step type="p:identity">
     <p:input port="source" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
</p:declare-step>

If the implementation supports passing PSVI annotations between steps, the p:identity step must preserve any annotations that appear in the input.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.23 p:in-scope-names

The p:in-scope-names step exposes all of the in-scope variables and options as a set of parameters in a c:param-set document.

<p:declare-step type="p:in-scope-names">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
</p:declare-step>

Each in-scope variable and option is converted into a c:param element. The resulting c:param elements are wrapped in a c:param-set and the parameter set document is written to the result port. The order in which c:param elements occur in the c:param-set is implementation-dependent.

For consistency and user convenience, if any of the variables or options have names that are in a namespace, the namespace attribute on the c:param element must be used. Each name must be an NCName.

The base URI of the output document is the URI of the pipeline document that contains the step.

For consistency with the p:parameters step, the result port is not primary.

Example

This unlikely pipeline demonstrates the behavior of p:in-scope-names: 

<p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc"
                name="main" version="1.0">
<p:output port="result">
  <p:pipe step="vars" port="result"/>
</p:output>

<p:option name="username" required="true"/>
<p:option name="password" required="true"/>
<p:variable name="host" select="'http://example.com/'"/>

<p:in-scope-names name="vars"/>

</p:declare-step>

Assuming the values supplied for the username and password options are “user” and “pass”, respectively, the output would be:

<c:param-set xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc-step">
  <c:param name="username" namespace="" value="user"/>
  <c:param name="host" namespace="" value="http://example.com/"/>
  <c:param name="password" namespace="" value="pass"/>
</c:param-set>

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.24 p:insert

The p:insert step inserts the insertion port's document into the source port's document relative to the matching elements in the source port's document.

<p:declare-step type="p:insert">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:input port="insertion" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml text/* */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="position" required="true" as="xs:token" values="('first-child','last-child','before','after')"/>
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if that pattern matches an attribute or a namespace node. Multiple matches are allowed, in which case multiple copies of the insertion documents will occur. If no elements match, then the document is unchanged.

The value of the position option must be an NMTOKEN in the following list:

  • “first-child” - the insertion is made as the first child of the match;

  • “last-child” - the insertion is made as the last child of the match;

  • “before” - the insertion is made as the immediate preceding sibling of the match;

  • “after” - the insertion is made as the immediate following sibling of the match.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0025) if the match pattern matches anything other than an element or a document node and the value of the position option is “first-child” or “last-child”. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0024) if the match pattern matches a document node and the value of the position is “before” or “after”.

As the inserted elements are part of the output of the step they are not considered in determining matching elements. If an empty sequence appears on the insertion port, the result will be the same as the source.

Document properties

All document properties on the source port are preserved. No document properties on the insertion port are preserved.

2.25 p:label-elements

The p:label-elements step generates a label for each matched element and stores that label in the specified attribute.

<p:declare-step type="p:label-elements">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="attribute" as="xs:QName" select="'xml:id'"/>  
     <p:option name="label" as="xs:string" select="'concat("_",$p:index)'"/><!-- XPathExpression -->
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'*'"/>          <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="replace" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>    
</p:declare-step>

The value of the label option is an XPath expression used to generate the value of the attribute label.

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if that expression matches anything other than element nodes.

The value of the replace must be a boolean value and is used to indicate whether existing attribute values are replaced.

This step operates by generating attribute labels for each element matched. For every matched element, the expression is evaluated with the context node set to the matched element. An attribute is added to the matched element using the attribute name is specified the attribute option and the string value of result of evaluating the expression. If the attribute already exists on the matched element, the value is replaced with the string value only if the replace option has the value of true.

If this step is used to add or change the value of an attribute named “xml:base”, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

An implementation must bind the variable “p:index” in the static context of each evaluation of the XPath expression to the position of the element in the sequence of matched elements. In other words, the first element (in document order) matched gets the value “1”, the second gets the value “2”, the third, “3”, etc.

The result of the p:label-elements step is the input document with the attribute labels associated with matched elements. All other non-matching content remains the same.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.26 p:load

The p:load step has no inputs but produces as its result a document (or documents) specified by an IRI.

<p:declare-step type="p:load">
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
     <p:option name="content-type" as="xs:string?"/>               
     <p:option name="document-properties" as="map(xs:QName, item()*)?"/>
</p:declare-step>

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0064) if the href URI is not a valid xs:anyURI. If the href is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:load in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

The document or documents identified by the href URI are loaded and returned. If the URI protocol supports redirection, then redirects must be followed.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0011) if the resource referenced by a p:load element does not exist or cannot be accessed.

The behavior of this step depends on the content type of the document or documents loaded. The content type of each document is determined as follows:

  1. If a content-type property is specified in document-properties or content-type is present, then each document must be interpreted according to that content type. It is a dynamic error (err:XD0062) if the content-type is specified and the document-properties has a “content-type” that is not the same.

  2. If the documents are retrieved with a URI protocol that specifies a content type (for example, http:), then the document must be interpreted according to that content type.

  3. In the absence of an explicit type, the content type is implementation-defined.

The parameters map contains additional, optional parameters that may influence the way that content is loaded. The interpretation of this map varies according to the content type. Parameter names that are in no namespace are treated as strings using only the local-name where appropriate.

Broadly speaking, there are five categories of data that might be loaded: XML, text, JSON, HTML, and “other” binary data.

2.26.1 Loading XML data

For an XML media type, the content is loaded and parsed as XML.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0049) if the loaded content is not a well-formed XML document.

If the dtd-validate parameter is true, then DTD validation must be performed when parsing the document. It is a dynamic error (err:XD0023) if a DTD validation is performed and either the document is not valid or no DTD is found. It is a dynamic error (err:XD0043) if the dtd-validate parameter is true and the processor does not support DTD validation.

Additional XML parameters are implementation-defined.

2.26.2 Loading text data

For a text media type, the content is loaded as a text document. (A text document is an XPath data model document consisting of a single text node.)

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0060) if the content-type specifies an encoding, which is not supported by the processor.

Text parameters are implementation-defined.

2.26.3 Loading JSON data

For a JSON media type, the content is loaded and parsed as JSON.

The parameters specified for the fn:parse-json function in [XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1] must be supported. Additional JSON parameters are implementation-defined.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0057) if the loaded content does not conform to the JSON grammar, unless the parameter liberal is true and the processor chooses to accept the deviation.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0058) if the parameter duplicates is reject and the value of loaded content contains a JSON object with duplicate keys.

It is a dynamic error (err:XD0059) if the parameter map contains an entry whose key is defined in the specification of fn:parse-json and whose value is not valid for that key, or if it contains an entry with the key fallback when the parameter escape with true() is also present.

2.26.4 Loading HTML data

For an HTML media type, the content is loaded and parsed into an XPath data model document that contains a tree of elements, attributes, and other nodes.

The precise way in which HTML documents are parsed into the XPath data model is implementation-defined.

HTML parameters are implementation-defined.

2.26.5 Loading binary data

An XProc processor may load other, arbitrary data types. How a processor interprets other media types is implementation-defined.

Parameters for other media types are implementation-defined.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved. The properties specified in document-properties are applied.

2.27 p:load-directory-list

The p:load-directory-list step has no inputs but produces as its result a sequence of documents loaded from a directory, specified by an IRI. If the directory's IRI is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:load-directory-list in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

<p:declare-step type="p:load-directory-list">
     <p:output port="result" content-type="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="path" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="include-filter" as="xs:string*"/>             <!-- RegularExpression -->
     <p:option name="exclude-filter" as="xs:string*"/>             <!-- RegularExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

Conformant processors must support directory paths whose scheme is file. It is implementation-defined what other schemes are supported by p:load-directory-list, and what the interpretation of 'directory', 'file' and 'contents' is for those schemes.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0017) if the absolute path does not identify a directory. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0012) if the contents of the directory path are not available to the step due to access restrictions in the environment in which the pipeline is run.

If present, the value of the include-filter or exclude-filter option must be a regular expression as specified in [XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1],section 7.61 “Regular Expression Syntax”.

If the include-filter pattern matches a directory entry's name, the entry is included in the output. If the exclude-filter pattern matches a directory entry's name, the entry is excluded in the output. If both options are provided, the include filter is processed first, then the exclude filter. As a result: An item is included if it matches (at least) one of the include-filter values and none of the exclude-filter values.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.28 p:make-absolute-uris

The p:make-absolute-uris step makes an element or attribute's value in the source document an absolute IRI value in the result document.

<p:declare-step type="p:make-absolute-uris">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="base-uri" as="xs:anyURI?"/>                   
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if the pattern matches anything other than element or attribute nodes.

The value of the base-uri option must be an anyURI. It is interpreted as an IRI reference. If it is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:make-absolute-uris in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

For every element or attribute in the input document which matches the specified pattern, its XPath string-value is resolved against the specified base URI and the resulting absolute IRI is used as the matched node's entire contents in the output.

The base URI used for resolution defaults to the matched attribute's element or the matched element's base URI unless the base-uri option is specified. When the base-uri option is specified, the option value is used as the base URI regardless of any contextual base URI value in the document. This option value is resolved against the base URI of the p:option element used to set the option.

If the IRI reference specified by the base-uri option on p:make-absolute-uris is not valid, or if it is absent and the input document has no base URI, the results are implementation-dependent.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.29 p:namespace-rename

The p:namespace-rename step renames any namespace declaration or use of a namespace in a document to a new IRI value.

<p:declare-step type="p:namespace-rename">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="from" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="to" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>          
     <p:option name="apply-to" as="xs:token" select="'all'" values="('all','elements','attributes')"/>
</p:declare-step>

The value of the from option must be an anyURI. It should be either empty or absolute, but will not be resolved in any case.

The value of the to option must be an anyURI. It should be empty or absolute, but will not be resolved in any case.

The value of the apply-to option must be one of “all”, “elements”, or “attributes”. If the value is “elements”, only elements will be renamed, if the value is “attributes”, only attributes will be renamed, if the value is “all”, both elements and attributes will be renamed.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0014) if the XML namespace (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace) or the XMLNS namespace (http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/) is the value of either the from option or the to option.

If the value of the from option is the same as the value of the to option, the input is reproduced unchanged on the output. Otherwise, namespace bindings, namespace attributes and element and attribute names are changed as follows:

  • Namespace bindings: If the from option is present and its value is not the empty string, then every binding of a prefix (or the default namespace) in the input document whose value is the same as the value of the from option is

    • replaced in the output with a binding to the value of the to option, provided it is present and not the empty string;

    • otherwise (the to option is not specified or has an empty string as its value) absent from the output.

    If the from option is absent, or its value is the empty string, then no bindings are changed or removed.

  • Elements and attributes: If the from option is present and its value is not the empty string, for every element and attribute, as appropriate, in the input whose namespace name is the same as the value of the from option, in the output its namespace name is

    • replaced with the value of the to option, provided it is present and not the empty string;

    • otherwise (the to option is not specified or has an empty string as its value) changed to have no value.

    If the from option is absent, or its value is the empty string, then for every element and attribute, as appropriate, whose namespace name has no value, in the output its namespace name is set to the value of the to option.

  • Namespace attributes: If the from option is present and its value is not the empty string, for every namespace attribute in the input whose value is the same as the value of the from option, in the output

    • the namespace attribute's value is replaced with the value of the to option, provided it is present and not the empty string;

    • otherwise (the to option is not specified or has an empty string as its value) the namespace attribute is absent.

Note

The apply-to option is primarily intended to make it possible to avoid renaming attributes when the from option specifies no namespace, since many attributes are in no namespace.

Care should be taken when specifying no namespace with the to option. Prefixed names in content, for example QNames and XPath expressions, may end up with no appropriate namespace binding.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.30 p:os-cwd

The p:os-cwd step returns the current working directory.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

<p:declare-step type="p:os-cwd">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml" primary="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

The step returns a single c:result element containing the current working directory. On systems which have no concept of a working directory the resulting c:result element will be empty.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.31 p:os-env

The p:os-env step returns information about the operating system environment on which the processor is running.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

<p:declare-step type="p:os-env">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml" primary="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:os-env step returns information about the operating system environment. It returns a c:result element containing zero or more c:env elements. Each c:env element has a name and a value attribute containing the name and value of an environment variable.

On systems which have no concept of an environment, this step returns an empty c:result element.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.32 p:os-info

The p:os-info step returns information about the operating system on which the processor is running.

Editorial Note

TBD: This is an almost direct port from EXProc. Details might still change.

<p:declare-step type="p:os-info">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml" primary="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

The step returns a c:result element with attributes describing properties of the system. It should include the following properties:

file-separator

The file separator; usually "/" on Unix, "\" on Windows.

path-separator

The path separator; usually ":" on Unix, ";" on Windows.

os-architecture

The operating system architecture, for example "i386".

os-name

The name of the operating system, for example "Mac OS X".

os-version

The version of the operating system, for example "10.5.6".

cwd

The current working directory. On systems which have no concept of a working directory the value of the attribute will be empty.

user-name

The login name of the effective user, for example "ndw".

user-home

The home directory of the effective user, for example "/home/ndw".

The exact set of properties returned is implementation-dependent.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.33 p:pack

The p:pack step merges two document sequences in a pair-wise fashion.

<p:declare-step type="p:pack">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml" sequence="true" primary="true"/>
     <p:input port="alternate" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true"/>
     <p:option name="wrapper" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>      
</p:declare-step>

The step takes each pair of documents, in order, one from the source port and one from the alternate port, wraps them with a new element node whose QName is the value specified in the wrapper option, and writes that element to the result port as a document.

If the step reaches the end of one input sequence before the other, then it simply wraps each of the remaining documents in the longer sequence.

Note

In the common case, where the document element of a document in the result sequence has two element children, any comments, processing instructions, or white space text nodes that occur between them may have come from either of the input documents; this step does not attempt to distinguish which one.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.34 p:parameters

The p:parameters step exposes a set of parameters as a c:param-set document.

<p:declare-step type="p:parameters">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
</p:declare-step>

Each parameter in the parameters map is converted into a c:param element. The resulting c:param elements are wrapped in a c:param-set and the parameter set document is written to the result port. The order in which c:param elements occur in the c:param-set is implementation-dependent.

For consistency and user convenience, in the output of p:parameters, if any of the parameters have names that are in a namespace, the namespace attribute on the c:param element must be used. Each name must be an NCName.

The base URI of the output document is the URI of the pipeline document that contains the step.

2.34.1 The c:param element

A c:param is a standard XML representation of a parameter.

<c:param
  name = EQName
  namespace? = anyURI
  value? = string
  as? = XPathSequenceType>
    anyElement*
</c:param>

The attributes that can occur on c:param are:

name

The name attribute of the c:param must have the lexical form of a QName. (In the output of some steps, such as p:parameters, the name will always be an xs:NCName, but that is not a general requirement for user-constructed c:param elements )

If the namespace attribute is not specified, and the name contains a colon, then the expanded name of the parameter is constructed using the name value and the namespace declarations in-scope on the c:param element. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0087) if the namespace attribute is not specified, the name contains a colon, and the specified prefix is not in the in-scope namespace bindings.

If the namespace attribute is not specified, and the name does not contain a colon, then the expanded name of the parameter is in no namespace.

namespace

The namespace URI of the parameter name.

If the namespace attribute is specified, then the expanded name of the parameter is constructed from the specified namespace and the name value. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0083) if the namespace attribute is specified, the name contains a colon, and the specified namespace is not the same as the in-scope namespace binding for the specified prefix.

value

If the parameter value is an atomic type, a lexical representation of its value appears in the value attribute. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0087) if the value attribute is specified and the c:param element is not empty.

as

The as attribute specifies the [XPath 3.1] sequence type of the parameter value. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0089) if the sequence type is not syntactically valid. The sequence type item()* is assumed if no explicit type is provided. It is a dynamic error (err:XD0036) if the supplied value of a variable or option cannot be converted to the required type.

Other attributes

Any namespace-qualified attribute names that appear on the c:param element are ignored. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0085) for any unqualified attribute names other than “name”, “namespace”, “as”, or “value” to appear on a c:param element.

If the c:param element is not empty, then its content, interpreted as a sequence of XML nodes, is the value of the parameter.

2.34.2 The c:param-set element

A c:param-set represents a set of parameters on a parameter input.

<c:param-set>
    c:param*
</c:param-set>

The c:param-set contains zero or more c:param elements. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0084) if the parameter list contains any elements other than c:param.

Any namespace-qualified attribute names that appear on the c:param-set element are ignored. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0086) for any unqualified attribute names to appear on a c:param-set element.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.35 p:rename

The p:rename step renames elements, attributes, or processing-instruction targets in a document.

<p:declare-step type="p:rename">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="new-name" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>     
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if the pattern matches anything other than element, attribute or processing instruction nodes.

Each element, attribute, or processing-instruction in the input matched by the match pattern specified in the match option is renamed in the output to the name specified by the new-name option.

If the match option matches an attribute and if the element on which it occurs already has an attribute whose expanded name is the same as the expanded name of the specified new-name, then the results is as if the current attribute named “new-name” was deleted before renaming the matched attribute.

With respect to attributes named “xml:base”, the following semantics apply: renaming an from “xml:base” to something else has no effect on the underlying base URI of the element; however, if an attribute is renamed from something else to “xml:base”, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

If the pattern matches processing instructions, then it is the processing instruction target that is renamed. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0013) if the pattern matches a processing instruction and the new name has a non-null namespace.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.36 p:replace

The p:replace step replaces matching nodes in its primary input with the document element of the replacement port's document.

<p:declare-step type="p:replace">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:input port="replacement" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if that pattern matches anything other than element, text, processing-instruction, or comment nodes. Multiple matches are allowed, in which case multiple copies of the replacement document will occur.

Every node in the primary input matching the specified pattern is replaced in the output is replaced by the document element of the replacement document. Only non-nested matches are replaced. That is, once a node is replaced, its descendants cannot be matched.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.37 p:set-attributes

The p:set-attributes step sets attributes on matching elements.

<p:declare-step type="p:set-attributes">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:input port="attributes" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if that pattern matches anything other than element nodes.

Each attribute on the document element of the document that appears on the attributes port is copied to each element that matches the match expression.

If an attribute with the same name as one of the attributes to be copied already exists, the value specified on the attribute port's document is used. The result port of this step produces a copy of the source port's document with the matching elements' attributes modified.

The matching elements are specified by the match pattern in the match option. All matching elements are processed. If no elements match, the step will not change any elements.

This step must not copy namespace declarations. If the attributes copied from the attributes use namespaces, prefixes, or prefixes bound to different namespaces, the document produced on the result output port will require namespace fixup.

If an attribute named xml:base is added or changed, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.38 p:set-properties

The p:set-properties step sets document properties on the source document.

<p:declare-step type="p:set-properties">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:option name="properties" required="true" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)"/>
     <p:option name="merge" default="false()" as="xs:boolean"/>    
</p:declare-step>

The document properties of the document on the source port are augmented with the values specified in the properties option. The document produced on the result port has the same representation but the adjusted property values.

If the merge option is true, then the supplied properties are added to the existing properties. If it is false, the document’s properties are replaced by the new set.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0069) if the properties map contains a key equal to the string “content-type”.

Document properties

If merge is true, document properties not overridden by settings in the properties map are preserved, otherwise the resulting document has the properties specified in the properties map.

2.39 p:sink

The p:sink step accepts a sequence of documents and discards them. It has no output.

<p:declare-step type="p:sink">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*" sequence="true"/>
</p:declare-step>

Document properties

Not applicable.

2.40 p:split-sequence

The p:split-sequence step accepts a sequence of documents and divides it into two sequences.

<p:declare-step type="p:split-sequence">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml" sequence="true"/>
     <p:output port="matched" sequence="true" primary="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:output port="not-matched" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="initial-only" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
     <p:option name="test" required="true" as="xs:string"/>        <!-- XPathExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the test option must be an XPathExpression.

The XPath expression in the test option is applied to each document in the input sequence. If the effective boolean value of the expression is true, the document is copied to the matched port; otherwise it is copied to the not-matched port.

If the initial-only option is true, then when the first document that does not satisfy the test expression is encountered, it and all the documents that follow it are written to the not-matched port. In other words, it only writes the initial series of matched documents (which may be empty) to the matched port. All other documents are written to the not-matched port, irrespective of whether or not they match.

The XPath context for the test option changes over time. For each document that appears on the source port, the expression is evaluated with that document as the context document. The context position (position()) is the position of that document within the sequence and the context size (last()) is the total number of documents in the sequence.

Note

In principle, this component cannot stream because it must buffer all of the input sequence in order to find the context size. In practice, if the test expression does not use the last() function, the implementation can stream and ignore the context size.

If the implementation supports passing PSVI annotations between steps, the p:split-sequence step must preserve any annotations that appear in the input.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.41 p:store

The p:store step stores (a possibly serialized version of) its input to a URI. This step outputs a reference to the location of the stored document.

<p:declare-step type="p:store">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml" primary="true"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="serialization" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>  
</p:declare-step>

The value of the href option must be an anyURI. If it is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:store in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

The step attempts to store the XML document to the specified URI. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0050) if the URI scheme is not supported or the step cannot store to the specified location.

The output of this step is a document containing a single c:result element whose content is the absolute URI of the document stored by the step.

The serialization option is provided to control the serialization of content when it is stored. Serialization is described in [XProc 3.0].

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.42 p:string-replace

The p:string-replace step matches nodes in the document provided on the source port and replaces them with the string result of evaluating an XPath expression.

<p:declare-step type="p:string-replace">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="replace" required="true" as="xs:string"/>     <!-- XPathExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern.

The value of the replace option must be an XPathExpression.

The matched nodes are specified with the match pattern in the match option. For each matching node, the XPath expression provided by the replace option is evaluated with the matching node as the XPath context node. The string value of the result is used in the output. Nodes that do not match are copied without change.

If the expression given in the match option matches an attribute, the string value of the replace expression is used as the new value of the attribute in the output. If the attribute is named “xml:base”, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

If the expression matches any other kind of node, the entire node (and not just its contents) is replaced by the string value of the replace expression.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.43 p:tee

The p:tee step stores (a possibly serialized version of) its input to a URI. The step outputs its input unchanged.

<p:declare-step type="p:tee">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="*/*" sequence="true"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:option name="href" required="true" as="xs:anyURI"/>        
     <p:option name="serialization" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>  
     <p:option name="enable" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>     
</p:declare-step>

The value of the href option must be an anyURI. If it is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:tee in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

The step attempts to store the document to the specified URI. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0050) if the URI scheme is not supported or the step cannot store to the specified location.

The output of this step is what appears on its input port, unchanged.

The serialization option is provided to control the serialization of content when it is stored. Serialization is described in [XProc 3.0].

If the enabled option is false, no attempt to store the document will be made. The step will act exactly like a p:identity step. The values for href and serialization will be ignored.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.44 p:unescape-markup

The p:unescape-markup step takes the string value of the document element and parses the content as if it was a Unicode character stream containing serialized XML. The output consists of the same document element with children that result from the parse. This is the reverse of the p:escape-markup step.

<p:declare-step type="p:unescape-markup">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml text/*"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:option name="namespace" as="xs:anyURI?"/>                  
     <p:option name="content-type" as="xs:string" select="'application/xml'"/>
     <p:option name="encoding" as="xs:string?"/>                   
     <p:option name="charset" as="xs:string?"/>                    
</p:declare-step>

The value of the namespace option must be an anyURI. It should be absolute, but will not be resolved.

When the string value is parsed, the original document element is preserved so that the result will be well-formed XML even if the content consists of multiple, sibling elements.

The namespace option specifies a default namespace. Elements that are in no namespace in the unescaped content will be placed into this namespace unless there is an in-scope namespace declaration that specifies a different namespace (or explicitly undeclares the default namespace).

The content-type option may be used to specify an alternate content type for the string value. An implementation may use a different parser to produce XML content depending on the specified content-type. For example, an implementation might provide an HTML to XHTML parser (e.g. [HTML Tidy] or [TagSoup]) for the content type 'text/html'.

All implementations must support the content type application/xml, and must use a standard XML parser for it. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0051) if the content-type specified is not supported by the implementation. Behavior of p:unescape-markup for content-types other than application/xml is implementation-defined.

The encoding option specifies how the data is encoded. All implementations must support the base64 encoding (and the absence of an encoding option, which implies that the content is plain Unicode text). It is a dynamic error (err:XC0052) if the encoding specified is not supported by the implementation.

If an encoding is specified, a charset may also be specified. The character set may be specified as a parameter on the content-type or via the separate charset option. If it is specified in both places, the value of the charset option must be used.

If the specified encoding is base64, then the character set must be specified. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0010) if an encoding of base64 is specified and the character set is not specified or if the specified character set is not supported by the implementation.

The octet-stream that results from decoding the text must be interpreted using the character encoding named by the value of the charset option to produce a sequence of Unicode characters to parse.

If no encoding is specified, the character set is ignored, irrespective of where it was specified.

For example, with the 'namespace' option set to the XHTML namespace, the following input:

<description>
&lt;p>This is a chunk.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This is a another chunk.&lt;/p>
</description>

would produce:

<description>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This is a chunk.</p>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This is a another chunk.</p>
</description>

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.45 p:unwrap

The p:unwrap step replaces matched elements with their children.

<p:declare-step type="p:unwrap">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if that pattern matches anything other than element nodes.

Every element in the source document that matches the specified match pattern is replaced by its children, effectively “unwrapping” the children from their parent. Non-element nodes and unmatched elements are passed through unchanged.

Note

The matching applies to the entire document, not just the “top-most” matches. A pattern of the form h:div will replace all h:div elements, not just the top-most ones.

This step produces a single document; if the document element is unwrapped, the result might not be well-formed XML.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.46 p:uuid

The p:uuid step generates a [UUID] and injects it into the source document.

<p:declare-step type="p:uuid">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="match" as="xs:string" select="'/*'"/>         <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="version" as="xs:integer?"/>                   
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. The value of the version option must be an integer.

If the version is specified, that version of UUID must be computed. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0060) if the processor does not support the specified version of the UUID algorithm. If the version is not specified, the version of UUID computed is implementation-defined.

Implementations must support version 4 UUIDs. Support for other versions of UUID, and the mechanism by which the necessary inputs are made available for computing other versions, is implementation-defined.

The matched nodes are specified with the match pattern in the match option. For each matching node, the generated UUID is used in the output (if more than one node matches, the same UUID is used in each match). Nodes that do not match are copied without change.

If the expression given in the match option matches an attribute, the UUID is used as the new value of the attribute in the output. If the attribute is named “xml:base”, the base URI of the element must also be amended accordingly.

If the expression matches any other kind of node, the entire node (and not just its contents) is replaced by the UUID.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.47 p:wrap-sequence

The p:wrap-sequence step accepts a sequence of documents and produces either a single document or a new sequence of documents.

<p:declare-step type="p:wrap-sequence">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml */*+xml text/*" sequence="true"/>
     <p:output port="result" sequence="true" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="wrapper" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>      
     <p:option name="group-adjacent" as="xs:string?"/>             <!-- XPathExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the group-adjacent option must be an XPathExpression.

In its simplest form, p:wrap-sequence takes a sequence of documents and produces a single, new document by placing each document in the source sequence inside a new document element as sequential siblings. The name of the document element is the value specified in the wrapper option.

The group-adjacent option can be used to group adjacent documents. The XPath context for the group-adjacent option changes over time. For each document that appears on the source port, the expression is evaluated with that document as the context document. The context position (position()) is the position of that document within the sequence and the context size (last()) is the total number of documents in the sequence. Whenever two or more sequentially adjacent documents have the same “group adjacent” value, they are wrapped together in a single wrapper element.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.48 p:wrap

The p:wrap step wraps matching nodes in the source document with a new parent element.

<p:declare-step type="p:wrap">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="wrapper" required="true" as="xs:QName"/>      
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
     <p:option name="group-adjacent" as="xs:string?"/>             <!-- XPathExpression -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0023) if the pattern matches anything other than document, element, text, processing instruction, and comment nodes.

The value of the group-adjacent option must be an XPathExpression.

If the node matched is the document node (match="/"), the result is a new document where the document element is a new element node whose QName is the value specified in the wrapper option. That new element contains copies of all of the children of the original document node.

When the match pattern does not match the document node, every node that matches the specified match pattern is replaced with a new element node whose QName is the value specified in the wrapper option. The content of that new element is a copy of the original, matching node. The p:wrap step performs a "deep" wrapping, the children of the matching node and their descendants are processed and wrappers are added to all matching nodes.

The group-adjacent option can be used to group adjacent matching nodes in a single wrapper element. The specified XPath expression is evaluated for each matching node with that node as the XPath context node. Whenever two or more adjacent matching nodes have the same “group adjacent” value, they are wrapped together in a single wrapper element.

Two matching nodes are considered adjacent if and only if they are siblings and either there are no nodes between them or all intervening, non-matching nodes are whitespace text, comment, or processing instruction nodes.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.49 p:www-form-urldecode

The p:www-form-urldecode step decodes a x-www-form-urlencoded string into an XML representation.

<p:declare-step type="p:www-form-urldecode">
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="value" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       
</p:declare-step>

The value option is interpreted as a string of parameter values encoded using the x-www-form-urlencoded algorithm. Each name/value pair is written in a c:param element. The entire set of parameters is written (as a c:param-set) on the result output port.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0037) if the value provided is not a properly x-www-form-urlencoded value. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0061) if the name of any encoded parameter name is not a valid xs:NCName. In other words, this step can only decode simple name/value pairs where the names do not contain colons or any characters that cannot be used in XML names.

The order of the c:param elements in the result is the same as the order of the encoded parameters, reading from left to right.

If any parameter name occurs more than once in the encoded string, the resulting parameter set will contain a c:param for each instance.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.50 p:www-form-urlencode

The p:www-form-urlencode step encodes a set of parameter values as a x-www-form-urlencoded string and injects it into the source document.

<p:declare-step type="p:www-form-urlencode">
     <p:input port="source" primary="true" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item()*)?"/>     
     <p:option name="match" required="true" as="xs:string"/>       <!-- XSLTSelectionPattern -->
</p:declare-step>

The value of the match option must be an XSLTSelectionPattern.

The set of parameters is encoded as a single x-www-form-urlencoded string of name/value pairs. When parameters are encoded into name/value pairs, only the local name of each parameter is used. The namespace name is ignored and no prefix or colon appears in the name.

The order of the parameters is implementation-dependent.

The matched nodes are specified with the match pattern in the match option. For each matching node, the encoded string is used in the output. Nodes that do not match are copied without change.

If the expression given in the match option matches an attribute, the encoded string is used as the new value of the attribute in the output. If the expression matches any other kind of node, the entire node (and not just its contents) is replaced by the encoded string.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

2.51 p:xinclude

The p:xinclude step applies [XInclude] processing to the source document.

<p:declare-step type="p:xinclude">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:option name="fixup-xml-base" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
     <p:option name="fixup-xml-lang" as="xs:boolean" select="false()"/>
</p:declare-step>

The value of the fixup-xml-base option must be a boolean. If it is true, base URI fixup will be performed as per [XInclude].

The value of the fixup-xml-lang option must be a boolean. If it is true, language fixup will be performed as per [XInclude].

The included documents are located with the base URI of the input document and are not provided as input to the step.

It is a dynamic error (err:XC0029) if an XInclude error occurs during processing.

Document properties

All document properties are preserved.

2.52 p:xslt

The p:xslt step applies an XSLT stylesheet to a document.

<p:declare-step type="p:xslt">
     <p:input port="source" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml" sequence="true" primary="true"/>
     <p:input port="stylesheet" content-types="application/xml text/xml */*+xml"/>
     <p:output port="result" primary="true" sequence="true" content-types="*/*"/>
     <p:output port="secondary" sequence="true"/>
     <p:option name="parameters" as="map(xs:QName,item())?"/>      
     <p:option name="initial-mode" as="xs:QName?"/>                
     <p:option name="template-name" as="xs:QName?"/>               
     <p:option name="output-base-uri" as="xs:anyURI?"/>            
     <p:option name="version" as="xs:string?"/>                    
</p:declare-step>

If present, the value of the initial-mode option must be a QName.

If present, the value of the template-name option must be a QName.

If present, the value of the output-base-uri option must be an anyURI. If it is relative, it is made absolute against the base URI of the element on which it is specified (p:with-option or p:xslt in the case of a syntactic shortcut value).

If the step specifies a version, then that version of XSLT must be used to process the transformation. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0038) if the specified version is not available. If the step does not specify a version, the implementation may use any version it has available and may use any means to determine what version to use, including, but not limited to, examining the version of the stylesheet.

The XSLT stylesheet provided on the stylesheet port is applied to the document on the source port. Any parameters passed in the parameters option are used to define top-level stylesheet parameters. The primary result document of the transformation, if there is one, appears on the result port. At most one document can appear on the result port. All other result documents appear on the secondary port. The order in which result documents appear on the secondary port is implementation-dependent. If XSLT 1.0 is used, an empty sequence of documents must appear on the secondary port.

If a sequence of documents is provided on the source port, the first document is used as the primary input document. The whole sequence is also the default collection. If no documents are provided on the source port, the primary input document is undefined and the default collection is empty. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0039) if a sequence of documents (including an empty sequence) is provided to an XSLT 1.0 step.

A dynamic error occurs if the XSLT processor signals a fatal error. This includes the case where the transformation terminates due to a xsl:message instruction with a terminate attribute value of “yes”. How XSLT message termination errors are reported to the XProc processor is implementation-dependent.

The invocation of the transformation is controlled by the initial-mode and template-name options that set the initial mode and/or named template in the XSLT transformation where processing begins. It is a dynamic error (err:XC0056) if the specified initial mode or named template cannot be applied to the specified stylesheet.

The output-base-uri option sets the context's output base URI per the XSLT 2.0 specification, otherwise the base URI of the result document is the base URI of the first document in the source port's sequence. If the value of the output-base-uri option is not absolute, it will be resolved using the base URI of its p:option element. An XSLT 1.0 step should use the value of the output-base-uri as the base URI of its output, if the option is specified.

If XSLT 2.0 is used, the outputs of this step may include PSVI annotations.

The static and initial dynamic contexts of the XSLT processor are the contexts defined in the step XPath context with the following adjustments.

The dynamic context is augmented as follows:

Context item

The first document that appears on the source port.

Variable values

Any parameters passed in the parameters option are available as variable bindings to the XSLT processor.

Function implementations

The function implementations provided by the XSLT processor.

Default collection

The sequence of documents provided on the source port.

Document properties

No document properties are preserved.

3 Step Errors

Several of the steps in the standard step library can generate dynamic errors.

A [Definition: A dynamic error is one which occurs while a pipeline is being evaluated.] Examples of dynamic errors include references to URIs that cannot be resolved, steps which fail, and pipelines that exhaust the capacity of an implementation (such as memory or disk space).

If a step fails due to a dynamic error, failure propagates upwards until either a p:try is encountered or the entire pipeline fails. In other words, outside of a p:try, step failure causes the entire pipeline to fail.

The following errors can be raised by steps in this specification:

err:XC0002

It is a dynamic error if the value starts with the string “--”.

See: Request Entity body conversion

err:XC0003

It is a dynamic error if a username or password is specified without specifying an auth-method, if the requested auth-method isn't supported, or the authentication challenge contains an authentication method that isn't supported.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0004

It is a dynamic error if the status-only attribute has the value true and the detailed attribute does not have the value true.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0005

It is a dynamic error if the request contains a c:body or c:multipart but the method does not allow for an entity body being sent with the request.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0006

It is a dynamic error if the method is not specified on a c:request.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0010

It is a dynamic error if an encoding of base64 is specified and the character set is not specified or if the specified character set is not supported by the implementation.

See: p:unescape-markup

err:XC0012

It is a dynamic error if the contents of the directory path are not available to the step due to access restrictions in the environment in which the pipeline is run.

See: p:directory-list, p:load-directory-list

err:XC0013

It is a dynamic error if the pattern matches a processing instruction and the new name has a non-null namespace.

See: p:rename

err:XC0014

It is a dynamic error if the XML namespace (http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace) or the XMLNS namespace (http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/) is the value of either the from option or the to option.

See: p:namespace-rename

err:XC0017

It is a dynamic error if the absolute path does not identify a directory.

See: p:directory-list, p:load-directory-list

err:XC0019

It is a dynamic error if the documents are not equal according to the specified comparison method, and the value of the fail-if-not-equal option is true.

See: p:compare

err:XC0020

It is a dynamic error if the the user specifies a value or values that are inconsistent with each other or with the requirements of the step or protocol.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0022

it is a dynamic error if the content of the c:body element does not consist of exactly one element, optionally preceded and/or followed by any number of processing instructions, comments or whitespace characters

See: Request Entity body conversion

err:XC0023

It is a dynamic error if the match pattern matches a node which is not an element.

See: p:add-attribute, p:insert, p:label-elements, p:make-absolute-uris, p:rename, p:replace, p:set-attributes, p:unwrap, p:wrap

err:XC0024

It is a dynamic error if the match pattern matches a document node and the value of the position is “before” or “after”.

See: p:insert

err:XC0025

It is a dynamic error if the match pattern matches anything other than an element or a document node and the value of the position option is “first-child” or “last-child”.

See: p:insert

err:XC0028

it is a dynamic error if the content of the c:body element does not consist entirely of characters

See: Request Entity body conversion

err:XC0029

It is a dynamic error if an XInclude error occurs during processing.

See: p:xinclude

err:XC0030

It is a dynamic error if the override-content-type value cannot be used (e.g. text/plain to override image/png).

See: Managing the response

err:XC0036

It is a dynamic error if the requested hash algorithm is not one that the processor understands or if the value or parameters are not appropriate for that algorithm.

See: p:hash

err:XC0037

It is a dynamic error if the value provided is not a properly x-www-form-urlencoded value.

See: p:www-form-urldecode

err:XC0038

It is a dynamic error if the specified version is not available.

See: p:xslt

err:XC0039

It is a dynamic error if a sequence of documents (including an empty sequence) is provided to an XSLT 1.0 step.

See: p:xslt

err:XC0040

It is a dynamic error if the document element of the document that arrives on the source port is not c:request.

See: p:http-request

err:XC0050

It is a dynamic error if the URI scheme of the target option is not supported or the file or directory cannot be copied to the specified location.

See: p:file-copy, p:file-move, p:store, p:tee

err:XC0051

It is a dynamic error if the content-type specified is not supported by the implementation.

See: p:unescape-markup

err:XC0052

It is a dynamic error if the encoding specified is not supported by the implementation.

See: Request Entity body conversion, p:unescape-markup

err:XC0056

It is a dynamic error if the specified initial mode or named template cannot be applied to the specified stylesheet.

See: p:xslt

err:XC0058

It is a dynamic error if the all and relative options are both true.

See: p:add-xml-base

err:XC0059

It is a dynamic error if the QName value in the attribute-name option uses the prefix “xmlns” or any other prefix that resolves to the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/.

See: p:add-attribute

err:XC0060

It is a dynamic error if the processor does not support the specified version of the UUID algorithm.

See: p:uuid

err:XC0061

It is a dynamic error if the name of any encoded parameter name is not a valid xs:NCName.

See: p:www-form-urldecode

err:XC0062

It is a dynamic error if the match option matches a namespace node.

See: p:delete

err:XC0069

It is a dynamic error if the properties map contains a key equal to the string “content-type”.

See: p:set-properties

err:XC0070

It is a dynamic error if the supplied content-type is not a valid media type of the form “type/subtype+ext”.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0071

It is a dynamic error if the p:cast-content-type step cannot perform the requested cast.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0072

It is a dynamic error if the c:data contains content is not a valid base64 string.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0073

It is a dynamic error if the c:data element does not have a content-type attribute.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0074

It is a dynamic error if the content-type is supplied and is not the same as the content-type specified on the c:data element.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0076

It is a dynamic error if the comparison method specified in p:compare is not supported by the implementation.

See: p:compare

err:XC0077

It is a dynamic error if the media types of the documents supplied are incompatible with the comparison method.

See: p:compare

err:XC0078

It is a dynamic error if fail-on-timeout is specified as true and a value is given for timeout and the p:http-request is not finished in the time specified by timeout.

See: Specifying a request

err:XC0079

It is a dynamic error if the map parameters contains an entry whose key is defined by the implementation and whose value is not valid for that key.

See: p:cast-content-type

err:XC0083

It is a dynamic error if the namespace attribute is specified, the name contains a colon, and the specified namespace is not the same as the in-scope namespace binding for the specified prefix.

See: The c:param element

err:XC0084

It is a dynamic error if the parameter list contains any elements other than c:param.

See: The c:param-set element

err:XC0085

It is a dynamic error for any unqualified attribute names other than “name”, “namespace”, “as”, or “value” to appear on a c:param element.

See: The c:param element

err:XC0086

It is a dynamic error for any unqualified attribute names to appear on a c:param-set element.

See: The c:param-set element

err:XC0087

It is a dynamic error if the namespace attribute is not specified, the name contains a colon, and the specified prefix is not in the in-scope namespace bindings.

See: The c:param element, The c:param element

err:XC0089

It is a dynamic error if the sequence type is not syntactically valid.

See: The c:param element

err:XC075

In all cases except when the input document is a c:data element, it is a dynamic error if the content-type is not supplied.

See: p:cast-content-type

A Conformance

Conformant processors must implement all of the features described in this specification except those that are explicitly identified as optional.

Some aspects of processor behavior are not completely specified; those features are either implementation-dependent or implementation-defined.

[Definition: An implementation-dependent feature is one where the implementation has discretion in how it is performed. Implementations are not required to document or explain how implementation-dependent features are performed.]

[Definition: An implementation-defined feature is one where the implementation has discretion in how it is performed. Conformant implementations must document how implementation-defined features are performed.]

A.1 Implementation-defined features

The following features are implementation-defined:

  1. The semantics of the keys and the allowed values for these keys are implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  2. Casting an HTML document that isn’t already an XPath data model document into XML is implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  3. The precise nature of the conversion from JSON to XML is implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  4. The precise nature of the conversion from XML to JSON is implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  5. Casting from an XML media type to a non-XML media type when the input document is not a c:data document is implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  6. Casting from one non-XML media type to another non-XML media type is implementation-defined. See Section 2.3, “p:cast-content-type”.
  7. Implementations of p:compare must support the deep-equal method; other supported methods are implementation-defined. See Section 2.4, “p:compare”.
  8. If fail-if-not-equal is false, and the documents differ, an implementation-defined summary of the differences between the two documents may appear on the differences port. See Section 2.4, “p:compare”.
  9. Conformant processors must support directory paths whose scheme is file. It is implementation-defined what other schemes are supported by p:directory-list, and what the interpretation of 'directory', 'file' and 'contents' is for those schemes. See Section 2.7, “p:directory-list”.
  10. Any file or directory determined to be special by the p:directory-list step may be output using a c:other element but the criteria for marking a file as special are implementation-defined. See Section 2.7, “p:directory-list”.
  11. Any other attributes on c:file, c:directory, or c:other are implementation-defined. See Section 2.7.1, “Directory list details”.
  12. The precise meaning of these properties are implementation-defined and may vary according to the URI scheme of the path. See Section 2.7.1, “Directory list details”.
  13. Any other attributes on c:file, c:directory, or c:other are implementation-defined. See Section 2.7.1, “Directory list details”.
  14. It is implementation-defined what other algorithms are supported. See Section 2.20, “p:hash”.
  15. The interpretation of auth-method values on c:request other than “Basic” or “Digest” is implementation-defined. See Section 2.21.1, “Specifying a request”.
  16. Whether or not, and to what extent, “multipart/byte-ranges” responses are supported is implementation-defined.) See Section 2.21.2, “Request Entity body conversion”.
  17. An implementation may support encodings other than base64 but these encodings and their names are implementation-defined. See Section 2.21.2, “Request Entity body conversion”.
  18. Pipeline authors that need to preserve cookies across several p:http-request calls in the same pipeline or across multiple invocations of the same or different pipelines will have to rely on implementation-defined mechanisms. See Section 2.21.3.2, “Cookies”.
  19. In the absence of an explicit type, the content type is implementation-defined See Section 2.26, “p:load”.
  20. Additional XML parameters are implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.1, “Loading XML data”.
  21. Text parameters are implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.2, “Loading text data”.
  22. Additional JSON parameters are implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.3, “Loading JSON data”.
  23. The precise way in which HTML documents are parsed into the XPath data model is implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.4, “Loading HTML data”.
  24. HTML parameters are implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.4, “Loading HTML data”.
  25. How a processor interprets other media types is implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.5, “Loading binary data”.
  26. Parameters for other media types are implementation-defined. See Section 2.26.5, “Loading binary data”.
  27. Conformant processors must support directory paths whose scheme is file. It is implementation-defined what other schemes are supported by p:load-directory-list, and what the interpretation of 'directory', 'file' and 'contents' is for those schemes. See Section 2.27, “p:load-directory-list”.
  28. Behavior of p:unescape-markup for content-types other than application/xml is implementation-defined. See Section 2.44, “p:unescape-markup”.
  29. If the version is not specified, the version of UUID computed is implementation-defined. See Section 2.46, “p:uuid”.
  30. Support for other versions of UUID, and the mechanism by which the necessary inputs are made available for computing other versions, is implementation-defined. See Section 2.46, “p:uuid”.

A.2 Implementation-dependent features

The following features are implementation-dependent:

  1. The interpretation of a multipart message inside another multipart message is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.21.4, “Converting Response Entity Bodies”.
  2. The order in which c:param elements occur in the c:param-set is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.23, “p:in-scope-names”.
  3. If the IRI reference specified by the base-uri option on p:make-absolute-uris is not valid, or if it is absent and the input document has no base URI, the results are implementation-dependent. See Section 2.28, “p:make-absolute-uris”.
  4. The order in which c:param elements occur in the c:param-set is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.34, “p:parameters”.
  5. The order of the parameters is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.50, “p:www-form-urlencode”.
  6. The order in which result documents appear on the secondary port is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.52, “p:xslt”.
  7. How XSLT message termination errors are reported to the XProc processor is implementation-dependent. See Section 2.52, “p:xslt”.

B References

B.1 Normative References

[XProc 3.0] XProc 3.0: An XML Pipeline Language. Norman Walsh, Achim Berndzen, Gerrit Imsieke and Erik Siegel, editors.

[W3C XML Schema: Part 2] XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition. Paul V. Biron and Ashok Malhotra, editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 28 October 2004.

[XPath 3.1] XML Path Language (XPath) 3.1. Jonathan Robie, Michael Dyck, Josh Spiegel, editors. W3C Recommendation. 21 March 2017.

[XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1] XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1. Michael Kay, editor. W3C Recommendation. 21 March 2017

[XInclude] XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 (Second Edition). Jonathan Marsh, David Orchard, and Daniel Veillard, editors. W3C Recommendation. 15 November 2006.

[Serialization] XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization. Scott Boag, Michael Kay, Joanne Tong, Norman Walsh, and Henry Zongaro, editors. W3C Recommendation. 23 January 2007.

[MD5] RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm. R. Rivest. Network Working Group, IETF, April 1992.

[RFC 1521] RFC 1521: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies. N. Borenstein, N. Freed, editors. Internet Engineering Task Force. September, 1993.

[Media Types] RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types. N. Freed, et. al.. Network Working Group, IETF, November, 1996.

[RFC 2119] Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. S. Bradner. Network Working Group, IETF, Mar 1997.

[RFC 2616] RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1. R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, et. al., editors. Internet Engineering Task Force. June, 1999.

[RFC 2617] RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication. J. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart. June, 1999 .

[Unicode TR#17] Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model. Ken Whistler, Mark Davis, and Asmus Freytag, authors. The Unicode Consortium. 11 November 2008.

[HTML Tidy] HTML Tidy Library Project. SourceForge project.

[TagSoup] TagSoup - Just Keep On Truckin'. John Cowan.

B.2 Informative References

[CRC32] “32-Bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes for Internet Applications”, The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks: 459. 10.1109/DSN.2002.1028931. P. Koopman. June 2002.

C Glossary

dynamic error

A dynamic error is one which occurs while a pipeline is being evaluated.

implementation-defined

An implementation-defined feature is one where the implementation has discretion in how it is performed. Conformant implementations must document how implementation-defined features are performed.

implementation-dependent

An implementation-dependent feature is one where the implementation has discretion in how it is performed. Implementations are not required to document or explain how implementation-dependent features are performed.

D Ancillary files

This specification includes by reference a number of ancillary files.

steps.xpl

An XProc step library for the declared steps.

E Credits

This document is derived from XProc: An XML Pipeline Language published by the W3C. It was developed by the XML Processing Model Working Group and edited by Norman Walsh, Alex Miłowski, and Henry Thompson.

The editors of this specification extend their gratitude to everyone who contributed to this document and all of the versions that came before it.