Subject: Re: How to do XML to XML translation
From: Stefan Trcek <stefan_trcek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 11:08:27 +0200
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Excuse, if you get this mail twice, I didn't get it from the list
since yesterday, so I guess it had been lost somewhere.
Thanks for that many suggestions.
Just a note, why I tried this way:
- I like better being declarative than writing programs.
Declarative is better maintainable, at least for me.
If necessary I "perl" it out to Java or C.
- XSL pattern are sufficient for me to process the source.
- XSL spec is 24 pages only, KISS :-)
- source, destination and transformation in XML sounds uniform to me.
For me it would be sufficient to have a XML source language,
a XML destination language (my own, of course) and a (maybe XSL-like)
spec to convert from src to dest.
This would make HTML and DSSSL flow objects a just special destination.
Is there any reason that makes people concentrate on text processing?
I think there are a lot of other usefull XML applications
(and that's more interesting for me), such as
- Get objects from a database and make an XML document of it.
- Delete parts, for which the user has no privileges (XML to itself).
- assume: vendor for database A ex/im-ports in XML, vendor for
database B in different XML. Make them interoperate (XML to XML).
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Stefan Trcek
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