result-tree vocabularies and non-XML serialisation

["James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really like being able to specify non-XML serialisation via the result
namespace.

What I would like to see is people taking existing non-XML formats and
developing:

    a) a namespace URI
    b) a DTD representing the existing non-XML format
    c) an output filter to convert documents conforming to the DTD into the
non-XML format

We already see this with HTML 4.0 in XT (and others XSL engines?)

Are people working on others?

For example, I would find it useful to be able to maintain the Makefile for
XMLSOFTWARE in XML (some of the dependencies are driven by the content of
XML documents and I would like to automate the making of the Makefile). The
best solution seems to be

    a) come up with a namespace URI for Makefiles
    b) develop a DTD for representing Makefiles in XML
    c) write an output filter to convert documents in this document type
into Makefiles

Others I would use *right now* include such a tuple for procmail files and
for comma separated value (CSV) files. Others I can think of include Windows
INI files, Unix mailboxes, your favourite programming language...

If people are interested, I will start a new section on SCHEMA.NET for
these.

James
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James Tauber / jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx / www.jtauber.com
Associate Researcher, Electronic Commerce Network
Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

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