I want to propose an alternative way to solve issue 157, without introducing significant complexity to the language.

The XSLT specification has been dealing with the exact same problem of evaluating an expression and placing the results in a target context. XSLT provides two separate mechanisms: copy-of and value-of. I would propose using these two XSLT elements as a normative part of the BPEL specification, instead of inventing yet another copy mechanism.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copy-of http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#value-of

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