Re: Fw: W3C-transformation language petition

["James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, in order to become a generalized graph-to-graph transformation
>language, as opposed to a tree-to-tree transformation language, XLink
issues
>need to be dealt with. For example, currently the ability to transform
>graphs which are constructed via links between disparate source documents
is
>lacking (or severely limited).


This has been a big issue in the relatively simple XSL I've done to produce
xmlsoftware.com. What I end up doing is:
    * having empty prologs in my documents (yuk! I hate doing that)
    * making one big document that declares all the associated documents as
external entities (hence the need to have empty prologs) and references them
    * using the XSL stylesheet on the big document. That way documents can
reference one another in a pseudo ID/IDREF kind of way.

James
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Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

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