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> | How rich are the transformations that AFs can perform? Can they do | > anything more than renaming? > > They can do slightly more, but not much. They can leave out elements, > turn elements into attributes, and vice versa. There are also some > things relating to defaulting etc. It may not sound much, but I was certainly extremely impressed a couple of years ago to so someone at one of the SGML/XML conferences demonstrating how to use AFs with data representation. By a simply manipulation, the same dataset could be rendered as a pie chart, line graph, scatter plot, histogram ... While quite a few commercial packages can do this inside their environment, it was interesting to see this done in an 'open' manner, but especially interesting to see it done in a way where the representation format could be determined by the information content itself. Maybe I'm out on a limb here, but the idea of 'intelligent data' like this (and XSLT has some of that funtionality, albeit highly watered down) rather catches my imagination. Simon North And for an honest attribute cry out ... Pericles IV-iii I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn. Twelfth Night, III-i
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