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Could you give an example of what you mean by a transformation between XML Namespaces ? Are you referring to the namespace URL ? the prefix ? or instance documents that follow a schema that is associated with the namespace ? ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee dlee@calldei.com http://www.xmlsh.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Victor Porton [mailto:porton@narod.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:14 PM > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org > Subject: Description of quality of a transformation > > I am writing a draft of a specification of transformations between XML > namespaces. Transformations can be chained: > > A->B->C (where A, B, C are namespaces). > > I need to describe criteria for selecting chains of transformations among > several possible variants. > > One characteristic of a transformation is its "quality". We may denote it > "release", "beta", "alpha" or something like this. Or we may use a numeric > quality (something like 0.6=alpha, 0.9=beta, 1=release)? > > What should we prefer numeric quality or a scheme like "release", "beta", > "alpha"? With numeric quality we could do some calculations, but it is unclear > whether these calculations are meaningful. > > What else criteria for choosing a chain of several transformation should we > consider? > > Should we describe reversible/non-reversible transformations? At first this > seems a promising idea. But is it? In fact most of XML transformations are in > practice not reversible. So is it worth to bother to mark some transformations > reversible? > > Any other idea about how to describe transformations? > > -- > Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > ______ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >
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