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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? -----Original Message----- From: jamsden@u... [mailto:jamsden@u...] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 7:21 AM To: Tim Bray Cc: xml-dev@i... Subject: Compound DTDs Perhaps XSL style sheets can play a role in combining XML documents having similar semantics but different tag names and structure. Consider for example two XML documents that describe something about a particular e-business segment, but use a different DTD. One could write an XSL style sheet that translated each of these documents into a third document that contained the desired elements from both expressed in perhaps some new structure. The style sheet could change element and attribute names, restructure or re-order content, etc. Something similar could be applied to DTDs if they used XML syntax. Then style sheets could be used to handle the namespace problem as well as to merge the definitions from multiple DTDs into some new, composite DTD. This could remove some of the barriers that prevent common document languages from being developed, or allowing unavoidable variability between document languages in business segments. For example, a document language for health care might be used by the insurance industry in a manner quite different than it was originally intended. To require the developers of the health care document language to consider the requirements of other, future stakeholders may inhibit the development of a document language they can immediately leverage. By allowing variability and using XSL to translate documents to meet current needs, document language developers gain freedom and flexibility that comes from keeping things independent and separate, while document reuse is still enabled. These translator style sheets could be published as adjuncts to document languages to convert them to other document languages. 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...) 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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