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This points out something that recurs a lot and was noted often in the days before people were trained to think of markup languages as a single DTD or schema which everyone implements: the need for an up/down transformable language spec. This approach was well-understood and documented in the past. For a standard language there should be: 1. A form that is an up translation target. The maximum information form into which and out of which other forms can be created. 2. Specifications for compressed format. These should be normatively expressed as the transform itself. In the SVG example, Henry's preferred form is the up form. It is not terse, but it can be used for lossless description. SVG with minimized paths is a compressed form, one of the possible normative compressed forms which could be documented by transform. The idea of identity equivalence should be relaxed to similarity by pattern where a pattern represents the ability to create a similar form. Similarity does not infer isomorphic identity, only that the category or class can include its non-reversible forms as family members. It seems trivial, but has implications for how we take specifications for languages and adopt them into flexible standards. It changes our thinking from one of colonization and policy laundering to standardization the accepts the potential for family variants related by standard and normative transforms. Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: ht@c... [mailto:ht@c...] I wanted to be able to go _the other way_, and without _deeply_ tedious us of string functions and so in in XSLT I can't. I agree that in principle the move we want to encourage is _out of_ other formats _into_ SVG, as you've done, but sometimes the other way is necessary, and the actual application I had in mind was for tutorial _display_ of SVG paths, i.e. SVG->HTML.
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