Subject: Compound style sheets From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:28:34 -0500 |
[I haven't yet plowed through all of the latest XSL WD, let alone considered all the implications of its features; in particular, I don't have enough of a grasp of the syntax yet to post sample code -- apparently de rigueur on xsl-list :). So apologies in advance if this is a naive question/suggestion. That said....] A discussion current on XML-DEV involves standardizing the representation of certain common data "types" -- not the atomic sorts (integer, float, string, etc.), but higher-level semantic types which can be expected to be needed across XML applications. These include dates, currency, names, addresses, phone numbers, and so on. One party to the discussion mentioned XSL in this context, and that made me wonder: Would it be useful to establish an ad-hoc "committee" whose sole charge would be the development of standard XSL transforms for these sorts of data? These standard transforms could be imported, included, or embedded as necessary in application-specific style sheets, and provide standard conversions of representation as necessary. (Note that this doesn't mean conversions of *values* -- I'm not proposing anything like a dollar-to-euro calculator.) The general idea is that document foo.xml might contain, say, numbers and dates which would need to be transformed for presentation in Europe as e.g. 1.000,234 and 31/12/1999. It seems to me that these sorts of transformations (or are they formatting? hmm, here comes that can of worms again) would be fairly trivial in XSL, but there would be enough variations to make reinvention of the wheel undesirable and error-prone. The "standard transforms" could be posted in publicly-accessible URIs at, say, the OASIS site. Just wondering. Thanks, JES ================================================= John E. Simpson simpson@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.flixml.org Just XML - Now available from Prentice-Hall XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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