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At 12:52 PM 1/5/99 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >This strikes me as an ideal application of architectural forms >(as implemented in XAF: see http://www.megginson.com/XAF). >By specifying the desired standard form as an architecture, >you allow the element types to be locally meaningful, while >letting applications (XSL, validation, or whatever) to act) >on architectural element types. XAF does the donkey work of >reducing one to the other. I definitely agree; my primary concern remains that architectural forms transformations will typically take place _after_ validation has already occurred, requiring developers to create complete translated DTDs rather than simpler tables of equivalent elements. In this, and in a significant number of situations like it, I suspect the XML spec's lack of a layered processing model is a hindrance. In other words, having a parser check basic document syntax and a validator check to see if the document structure corresponds to a schema would have made it easier to stick things in between the initial parse and the validation - like architectural forms transformations. Instead, we have parsers that do both syntax and structure checking and spit out results. This separation is something I hope to see come out of the upcoming W3C schema discussions, and is a promising aspect of XSchema (which layered itself on top of XML 1.0) as well. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Cookies Sharing Bandwidth Building XML Applications (February) http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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