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Subject: Re: About Constructions rules
From: Daniel Mahler <dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:17:16 -0500
Brandon Ibach wrote:

>    I've actually been wanting to use DSSSL to create an SGML and
> template based scripting engine for years now, but determined that I
> needed a good implementation of the transformation language to make it

That is an idea I am interested in.

> work.  The idea is to use architectures to introduce a set of
> scripting elements into existing DTDs.  Probably the easiest way to do

That is interesting.

> this, using HTML an an example, would be to create a new DTD that
> simply creates a new document element whose content model is just a
> single <HTML> element, but with the scripting elements as inclusions,
> meaning that they could show up anywhere in the HTML, as long as
> they're nested properly (for those that aren't empty elements).  Using
> architectures, the user could rename the elements and their attributes
> as needed, among other "customization".
>    The DSSSL transformation spec could then take the parsed document,
> create an auxiliary grove, which would be the architectural instance
> of the scripting elements, and process the whole thing, utilizing the
> links from the auxiliary grove back to the document instance to pull
> in the non-architectural (HTML, in this case) stuff as needed.

I am not sure I understand this,
but it sounds exciting.
Could you provide a hypothetical example?

Daniel


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