[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XML Overlays and Deltas: Existing methods? Ideas?
Another idea, perhaps theoretical, is to consider the delta syntax itself, that is the markup in which the delta is expressed, as a "compressed" form of XSLT. XSLT itself can expand or compress the representation into a simpler message pattern which could be reexpanded for application against particular types of documents to be updated. That would work for element and attribute types of the message format, certainly, so then the challenge would be to determine patterns for the XPath or if they are already in optimally compressed form. The only reason I can think of off the top for using XSLT like that would be to reuse the XSLT semantics for update, append, delete operations. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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