From a4c481d5216ffa871327571bca42ca28e75500b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xml-project <achim.berndzen@xml-project.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:52:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Changed type of select

---
 step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
index 775d8ac..7590098 100644
--- a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
+++ b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ A machine-readable description of this step may be found in
   <p:input port="source" sequence="true"/>
   <p:output port="result" sequence="true"/>
   <p:option name="test" as="xs:boolean" select="true()"/>
-  <p:option name="select" as="xs:string" required="true"/>
+  <p:option name="select" as="item()*" required="true"/>
 </p:declare-step>
 
 <para>Steps that produce messages offer one way for an author to keep track of
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ and is considerably less verbose.</para>
 
 <para>If the <tag class="attribute">test</tag> attribute is
 “<literal>true</literal>”, the <tag class="attribute">select</tag> expression is
-evaluated and made available. (As with the <link
+evaluated, serialized and made available. (As with the <link
 xlink:href="https://spec.xproc.org/master/head/xproc/#messages">message
 attribute</link>, this is intentionally vague. <impl>Precisely what “made
 available” means is <glossterm>implementation-defined</glossterm>.</impl>

From 001cd853bcc359ea42954fa95a363021a7aedaa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xml-project <achim.berndzen@xml-project.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:06:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Modified text as discussed

---
 step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
index 7590098..44d8182 100644
--- a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
+++ b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ harder to read and understand.</para>
 and is considerably less verbose.</para>
 
 <para>If the <tag class="attribute">test</tag> attribute is
-“<literal>true</literal>”, the <tag class="attribute">select</tag> expression is
-evaluated, serialized and made available. (As with the <link
+“<literal>true</literal>”, the value of the <tag class="attribute">select</tag> option is
+serialized and made available. (As with the <link
 xlink:href="https://spec.xproc.org/master/head/xproc/#messages">message
 attribute</link>, this is intentionally vague. <impl>Precisely what “made
 available” means is <glossterm>implementation-defined</glossterm>.</impl>

From 71cf78cad2a049efa9ccc3eab2edf74f80636e29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xml-project <achim.berndzen@xml-project.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 09:40:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Changed text as suggested by Gerrit

---
 step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
index 44d8182..3313ab0 100644
--- a/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
+++ b/step-message/src/main/xml/specification.xml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ harder to read and understand.</para>
 and is considerably less verbose.</para>
 
 <para>If the <tag class="attribute">test</tag> attribute is
-“<literal>true</literal>”, the value of the <tag class="attribute">select</tag> option is
+  “<literal>true</literal>”, the result of evaluating the <tag class="attribute">select</tag> option is
 serialized and made available. (As with the <link
 xlink:href="https://spec.xproc.org/master/head/xproc/#messages">message
 attribute</link>, this is intentionally vague. <impl>Precisely what “made