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RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reas

• To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, 'XML Developers List' <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reasonable?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:02:50 -0600

Sure.  Systems that have legacy schemas have to do this all 
the time.   We're back to structuralists vs free traders.

www.tdan.com/i030hy01.htm

Note the use of mappings to create the 'understanding'.

A pattern/phenotype/form IS a map.   Your question is not 
one of possibility, but degree.   How much energy/time 
can you devote to the mapping process itself?  Put 
another way, is this a discovery process? 

If the performance metric is overconstrained, this will 
fail.  If it can be relaxed, discovery is affordable.

len


From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...]

>I assume that this question has as its impetus ...

Here's my motivation for the question: in a large, complex Enterprise you
may know the kinds of "things" that need to be moved around (e.g., Book,
BookCover, etc) but you don't have a-priori knowledge of the specific
transactions that will be needed.  

So, is it feasible to simply declare a bunch of components (that everyone
understands), which may be dynamically assembled by one system and shipped
to another system where the assembly is dynamically understood.

/Roger




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