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RE: Wikipedia on XML

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:18:08 +0100

> It is interesting that a lot of the XML technologies that 
> have rather failed to thrive are the little ones that are 
> severed from the mainstream.
> XInclude, XLink, XBase, XML catalogs, XML Fragments, xml:id and so on.
> Apart from namespaces and <?xml-stylesheet, have there been 
> any of the single-purpose technologies from W3C that have 
> made any traction? 
> 
> So I would expect that unless this kind of renaming was 
> ubiquitously available, or always part of some larger bundle 
> or platform, merely making a way to do it (either declarative 
> through DSRL or functionally by XSLT2 or whatever).
> 


XProc might be the answer: it bundles many of these little capabilities
together into a larger package.

It also, incidentally, has many "mini-transformations" such as renaming or
renamespacing built in as primitives.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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