Editing XML pipeline (section)

== Linear operations ==
Linear operations can be divided in at least two parts

=== Micro-operations ===
They operate at the inner document level
* '''Rename''' - renames elements or attributes without modifying the content
* '''Replace''' - replaces elements or attributes
* '''Insert''' - adds a new data element to the output stream at a specified point
* '''Delete''' - removes an element or attribute (also known as pruning the input tree)
* '''Wrap''' - wraps elements with additional elements
* '''Reorder''' - changes the order of elements

=== Document operations ===
They take the input document as a whole
* '''[[Identity transform]]''' - makes a verbatim copy of its input to the output
* '''Compare''' - it takes two documents and compare them
* '''Transform''' - execute a transform on the input file using a specified [[XSLT]] file.  Version 1.0 or 2.0 should be specified.
* '''Split''' - take a single XML document and split it into distinct documents

=== Sequence operations ===
They are mainly introduced in [[XProc]] and help to handle the sequence of document as a whole
* '''Count''' - it takes a sequence of documents and counts them
* '''[[Identity transform]]''' - makes a verbatim copy of its input sequence of documents to the output
* '''split-sequence''' - takes a sequence of documents as input and routes them to different outputs depending on matching rules
* '''wrap-sequence''' - takes a sequence of documents as input and wraps them into one or more documents