• From: crism@e... (Christopher R. Maden)
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:25:18 -0800

[Steve Newcomb]
>(1) Everybody has to use the same DTD or Schema (which ain't gonna
>    happen for reasons too obvious to mention here), or
>
>(2) Everybody uses different DTDs, and, for N DTDs, there must be
>    roughly N-squared transformation specifications to convert between
>    them.

Well, there's a third possibility: everybody uses different DTDs, with an
industry-standard interchange DTD.  For N DTDs, there are 2N
transformations into and out of the interchange DTD.  They may be managed
with AFs at some sites, and not at others.

(Just attempting to clarify; not really taking a position on AFs right now,
having used them to good effect but not nearly as often as full
transforms.)

-Chris

--
Christopher R. Maden, Solutions Architect
Yomu (formerly Exemplary Technologies)
One Embarcadero Center, Ste. 2405
San Francisco, CA 94111



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