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Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@i...> asks: > > What is the advantage of expressing business rules in > XML templates and XSLT over using a language such as RuleML? I'm not sure if RuleML could do quite what we're doing, but mostly it's historic. When we started out we didn't know that we where codifying business rules in XML and XSLT. Probably the only reason to stick to our system is that the XSLT can be optimized for the specific business cases. We have a set of generic capabilities, but we also have domain specific cases that import the more generic logic. For example, aliquot allocation in the sample bank: the rules on how to manage the refrigerator/freezer/shelf/slot/box/aliquot hierarchy and map it back to the person/sample type/sample hierarchy essentially come down to almost 600 lines of XSLT, 100 of which are business logic and the rest of which are mostly presentation logic (to the extent you can separate business logic from presentation logic in such specialized domains).
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