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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
----- Original Message From: "Uche Ogbuji" It's not intrinsically broken. It's more broken in the sense that it's not reasonable to expect an architect or developer to maintain it in an elegant and durable way.
Loose architectural systems, where clearly identified external dependencies are injected in and resolved and dispatched via external configuration are likely to be much more flexible than a system that has to be crafted with intimate knowledge of a pipeline of how the data should be processed. This might be a matter of how we read what Hans-Juergen wrote, and I admit I might have misread it. When he said "integrate schema information from 283 different schemas" that to me is not a loose architectural system. If he had said "integrate data from 283 different schemas" then I'd agree.
In other words, for me, the right, loosely-coupled approach approach would not be to make a super-schema with all its requisite entanglements from 238 initial sources, and then use that to direct all the processing. But rather to use pipelines, with some sort of demultiplexer component at the input to identify sub-patterns (maybe even at a greater level of granularity than the 238 full schemata) and forward to specialized pipeline branches for each. It wouldn't magically transform into an easy task, but I believe it would be more manageable.
And I don't think this is pie-in-the-sky either. I'd think NVDL and/or XProc could be used to do this. As others have said, we're not all solving the same problem. This might be the one point on which we definitely all agree.
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