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Jason Diamond wrote: > Is it possible to reorder the mapped forms? What if I wanted the date > element to appear after the byline element? I'm assuming that the order of > forms in the map has no effect since they don't match the result document. > > I like the idea but it seems that all your map can do is strip and rename. > Wouldn't mapping from one form to another with more complex vocabularies > require more functionality than that? > > I'm just a youngin' so AFs are entirely new to me. But it seems that you're > just trying to write a transform but without using XSLT or other procedural > code. Don't get me wrong, I think that'd be great but it doesn't seem to > have the flexibility and power that you get with full XSLT. As I said: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200201/msg01668.html , AF is a transform, and John's syntax appears simpler than XSLT for the special case where it is appropriate. The other issue will be the performance of a transform engine that may restrict itself to the AF special case rather than full XSLT. Some empirical data on this would be interesting. In the general case I use XSLT for the purpose of AF. Jonthan
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