Re: processing points in draft-beck-opes-irml-03

[Alex Rousskov <rousskov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Andre Beck wrote:

> Yes, I think application-specific processing points should be
> defined in the corresponding application protocol binding for IRML,
> but I still think that it makes sense to define a general mechanism
> of how to specify processing points in IRML rules in the IRML spec.
> Is this what you had in mind as well?

Yes, kind of. It all depends on the overall language design. With the
current design, we have to describe "processing point" as a general
concept/attribute (without defining any application-specific values).
This is because the current draft makes this particular attribute
special compared to other "properties". You have already explained the
motivation behind this design.

An alternative is a an approach where "processing point" becomes just
one of the application-specific properties and requires no special
treatment or even documentation in the IRML Core. Application-specific
interpreters or compilers would be free to treat/optimize this
property specially, of course.

Alex.