On 9/30/07, Pat Cappelaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Next participant really wants a file name and time input (for instance).  So
> we need a transformer that can transform the workitem into a more
> appropriate workitem for the next guy.

Should we really care about the next guy ?
Isn't it more appropriate to think about services struggling to
transform their input into something usable ?
Let's fight on 1 front.

> This would call for an XSLT
> participant, I guess.  It would take an XSLT file as an input parameter.
> That's one easy idea but not very super user friendly (user needs to know
> XSLT).
>
> In my case, I could have an ActiveStoreParticipant that outputs a record in
> XML in workitem.  This gets transformed by XSLTParticipant to accommodate
> the next participant.

Within the engine, workitems are just plain ruby instances, the
'attributes' is a hash. Would this generic XsltParticipant imply that
all workitems are transferred as XML between participants (even
between expressions) ?

-- 
John Mettraux   -///-   http://jmettraux.openwfe.org

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