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Another general translator is available -- GENTRAN from Sterling Commerce. This product has a GUI mapper that lets you 'link' from someone else's data representation to your own (and vice versa). It understands DTDs, and can build a basic map structure for one side of a mapping from a DTD file. It can translate between XML, positional, and EDI syntaxes (I may be leaving a few out.) GENTRAN's XML support is currently on the NT platform, with plans to migrate it to our other GENTRAN platforms. You can find information on the GENTRAN products on the NT platform at http://www.stercomm.com/pdsv/ploc/gent/wnnt.html -Stacy -----Original Message----- From: Simon St.Laurent [SMTP:simonstl@s...] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:45 PM To: Kent Sievers; xml-dev@i... Subject: Re: Dissillusioned about interoperability. At 05:13 PM 10/7/99 -0600, Kent Sievers wrote: >A tool like, say, a markup language other than XML? One that only had one >way to mark up a simple name/value pair? That is what we left behind. We haven't left anything behind yet, not by a long run. What I'm talking about is a tool that would let you map: everybody else's damn structures -> my structures where you'd set things up so that you could create mappings one time, and then your processor could identify incoming structures and map them to what _you_ want. If you only want name/value pairs structured one way, that's fine. You can do this kind of work with transformations like XSLT and architectural forms. What I haven't seen so far is something that lets people take 'random' XML documents and say 'make it look like this' in a general way without requiring major pain and suffering, which I suspect is the root of your disillusionment. Even if such a tool only handled simple cases, it could do a lot of good if it had a reasonable interface and easy automation. Mike Hatalski pointed out IBM's XML Translator Generator - it's one option, though I'd like to see it given a prettier face. http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techmain/5F60964153C427478825677600681 7AA I'm not ready to force the world into a single model for name-value pairs, sorry. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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