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Architectural forms

  • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • To: Andrew Layman <andrewl@m...>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 17:05:03 -0600

Architectural forms
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).

 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
 http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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