RE: XSLT Automated vs Manual

If you read the XMLulator info more carefully, you'll see that it still
involves a manual step. That product uses a time-honored filter-writing
approach: rather than craft specialized mappings between each pair of
interesting formats, craft a mapping between each format and some common
intermediate format, then derive the filter between any given pair of
formats as a combination of the two format<->intermediate mappings. Done
right, it indeed affords the benefits they cite -- but that initial mapping
still is a manual step.

On the other hand, I think you're right that there's still a difference in
kind between the two kinds of translations. When translating between two
formats with strong and similar semantics -- two "content" formats (I dunno,
maybe stuff like parts lists?) or two "presentation" formats, it's possible
to imagine a single correct translation derived by something like the
XMLulator. On the other hand, translation between formats with dissimilar
semantics -- say HTML and some vertical-industry XML language -- is likely
to require more effort, as the range of useful translation possibilities is
greater.

-- ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iyer, Srinivasan (MLIP - PCC) [mailto:ISrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:18 PM
> To: 'xsl-list-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: XSLT Automated vs Manual
> 
> 
> Hello,
> With ref to an article that I read on  " automated, 
> meaning-driven" XML
> transformation. " 
> http://www.charteris.com/xmulator/xmulator_links.htm 
> I got the impression that in the future( maybe even now )  xml-xml
> transformations would be automated/template based mapped by 
> server softwares
> , whereas more detailed translations ( read presentation )  
> like xml-html /
> xml-wml would still require manual coding. 
> Do others view the situation in the same light ?
> Thanks
> Srini
> 
> 
> 
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