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Steve wrote: "This seems like an obvious path for semi-automatic stylesheet generation: given source and destination schemas (schemata? schema? (plurality perplexity)), a few GUI points and clicks, and voila! _My.Stylesheet_ is born. Does anyone know of products which support this kind of thing already?" The Mapper component of BizTalk (downloadable for no extra charge from MS at http://www.microsoft.com/biztalkserver/techres/techpreview.asp) does exactly this. With the two provisos that: 1. The Schemas must be in XDR (but XML Authority will convert from DTD to XDR very nicely) 2. The XSLT generated is the MS version not the latest standard. Yours, John F Schlesinger SysCore Solutions 212 619 5200 x 219 917 886 5895 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Steve Rowe [mailto:sarowe@t...] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 11:34 AM To: Steve Boyce; xml-dev@x... Subject: RE: XLink transformations Steve Boyce wrote: <snip/> > And this relates very obviously to a (mis)understanding I have about > XSL/XSLT. Don't these "secretly" presuppose that they are mapping > from one schema to another schema? I mean, if I write a stylesheet, > in reality I have in mind a source and destination schema. Shouldn't > these be made explicit? This seems like an obvious path for semi-automatic stylesheet generation: given source and destination schemas (schemata? schema? (plurality perplexity)), a few GUI points and clicks, and voila! _My.Stylesheet_ is born. Does anyone know of products which support this kind of thing already? Steve Rowe MNIS-TextWise Labs
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