Subject: Re: Is it possible to process architectural instances with (sgml-parse)? From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:31:59 -0600 |
At 06:44 PM 1/22/99 +0000, Norman Gray wrote: > >Greetings, > >Is it possible to process a document with respect to an architectural instance >using DSSSL's sgml-parse function (as implemented in Jade version "1.1.1" >SP version "1.3.1")? The version of Jade provided with the MIF back end (www.isogen.com/JadeMif.html) provides this function. I don't know if James has integrated with his version of Jade (I don't think he has, but I haven't been tracking it very closely of late). >Finally, am I correct in presuming that architectural form processing >is something that happens as the grove is being built, so that there are >no architectural transformations possible on the completed grove in DSSSL. The grove you get from Jade reflects the architectural instance. You could, of course, implement architectural processing in DSSSL (I have to various degrees) if you needed it. Note that in the full abstract architecture processing model, you have groves for both the client document and all architectural views in memory at once, with pointers in both directions connecting corresponding nodes. TechnoTeacher's GroveMinder tool implements this, as does my PHyLIS tool (albeit crudely at the moment). Some architectural processing, such as HyTime semantics, require this level of architecture support--simply put, you use the architectural view to figure out what things in the client document really are, but then apply the data processing (e.g., link and address resolution) to the client document, not the architectural instance. >Just by the way (admission of confusion, here), am I correct in >understanding `architectural instance' as the DTD which results from >architectural processing, as distinguished from `architectural document', >which is the document into which the original document instance is >transformed by that processing? HyTime's A.3.1.2 seems to define the >latter fairly clearly, but I can't now re-find the definition of the >former in there. No--architectural instance is the document that reflects the architectural mapping--its document instance is the architectural instance (the document uses the architecture's DTD as its DTD). If you have questions about using the MIF back end with architectures, or run into any bugs, let me know. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 75202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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