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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > This morning, while reviewing a chapter on WSDL that mentions Schematron, > I started wondering if something like Schematron would make sense > for dispatching. Schematron is capable of making descisions based on > a much wider range of options than simple namespace-testing, and seems > to deal with a lot of the context-sensitivity issue which panic the > browser people as well. > > Any thoughts on this? While I don't expect Schematron itself to do > this work, Schematron seems like a great foundation on which to > develop such things. > I think that this is a great idea - in fact in the very interesting schematron-love-in thread on "Workflow, phases and state machines" [1] I proposed that we extend Schematron to implement Business Transaction protocols. However it may be that this simply provides a new way to sweep the dirt under a different bit of carpet - a protocol is a solution, because it's agreed by both sides, but would a standalone dispatcher be specified by the document author or consumer? Francis. [1] http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=5106121&list=6317
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