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David LeBlanc wrote: >How does xsl not support architectural forms? As described in David >Megginson's book, they are just a formalism for attaching attributes to >elements which have meaning only for the architecture processor. Paul Prescod wrote (on January 6th): >Andrew Layman wrote: >> >> If I understand this, the author is saying that the kinds of mappings >> achievable with architectural forms can also be achieved with XSL. Is that >> correct? > >This is more or less correct. XSL cannot implement the architectural form >mechanism, but I believe that anything you would want to do with archforms >could also be done with XSL -- for a particular DTD/archform pair. It >would be nice if an XSL stylesheet *could* do XAF-level generic >architectural form processing. > >Note, however, that architectural forms are completely declarative and can >be implemented in a highly optimized fashion. The sorts of extensions that >Microsoft has proposed for XSL (<xsl:eval>...</>) would completely destroy >those features. Architectural mapping would, in general, be as reliable >and high performance as ordinary software -- (not at all). I read this as saying the XSL doesn't do architectural forms directly - you'd have to write a stylesheet per DTD to do the transformation, rather than just saying 'go', which means that "yes, you can do it - but it isn't easy or pretty". Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Cookies Sharing Bandwidth Building XML Applications (March) 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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