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RE: XSLT Automated vs Manual
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: XSLT Automated vs Manual
- From: Ed Blachman <EdB at trellix dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:25:24 -0400
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
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@NA2.US.ML.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:18 PM
> To: 'xsl-list-digest@mulberrytech.com'
> 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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