[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Re: AF and namespaces, once again
Steven R. Newcomb wrote: > > Over the last few years, I've talked about AFs with > Makoto Murata from time to time, so I know he's well > aware of the issues. As for James Clark, he > practically wrote the book on architectural forms, > although he professes no great love for them now. So I > have high hopes that the requirements that I keep > bringing up, year after year, will someday be addressed > by people who are competent to address them. An AF, and if you would prefer to qualify, at the syntactic level, defines a relatively simple type of transform: e.g. you replace a set of names with another set of names. From a requirements point of view, an AF could be compiled into an XSLT. To say it another way: when I consider whether two document forms contain the same information, I see whether one can create an XSLT to go from one to the other and vis versa. > > I think it would be higher on their agenda if more > people indicated to them that these are serious > requirements with serious economic consequences. Right > now, it's still unusual for someone to bring up the > possibility that a single document could be useful in > multiple processing contexts. I think people are indeed using XSLT as a type of AF, just not calling it that -- so the concept is quite useful and does live. One might question whether XSLT is the simplest way to represent an AF, but nonetheless an AF is a transform. Jonathan
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