Legacy from 1.0: Describe context for understanding variables and options

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Describe context for understanding variables and options 

This is an aggregation of the discussion on "Describe context for understanding variables and options" (Issue 80 of the xproc/1.0-specification)

Opened by: ndw on 2014-10-08, 14:20h

ndw said on 2014-10-08, 14:20h:

Note also the as attribute ala XSLT. In section 2.5 or thereabouts. 

xquery said on 2015-06-10, 14:59h:

motivated by discussion here XProc Minutes 8 Oct 2014http://www.w3.org/XML/XProc/2014/10/08-minutes 

ndw said on 2015-06-11, 12:57h:

This issue is really about what happens when supplied options don't have the required type. 

On 2015-06-12, 11:13h: ndw referenced this issue.

ndw said on 2015-06-12, 11:14h:

In the absence of ^; the type of shortcut option values is "xs:untypedAtomic" so they will be coerced to atomic types by the processor. 

On 2015-06-12, 11:14h: ndw added the proposed-resolution label.

On 2015-10-07, 14:40h: ndw added this to the XProc 2.0 Next PWD milestone.