Re: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)

Subject: Re: XPDL (was Re: XML is broken)
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:52:29 -0400
At 08:06 AM 4/7/99 -0700, John J Barton wrote:
>Perhaps then an approach to XPDL that makes sense is to view it
>as a kind of server-side include system.  The authoring system
>can be quite orthogonal and layered, but the server extension for
>handling XPDL may transform the layered docs into packaged docs
>for the client, including possible capabilities negotitations. This
>gives the compact, self-contained document model that may be more
>practical now.  Later more direct use of XPDL may make sense.

Actually, the first implementation I'm planning on building is a servlet
that reads the XPDL file and adds its information to the document,
'packaging' it for use with XML processors that will likely have no clue
what XPDL is.

A generic XPDL processor will be at the core of this servlet, and should be
pretty easy to reuse. (I plan to reuse it for my layered parser, for
example.)  It'll probably be June before I can actually get to this, however.

Simon St.Laurent
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