Subject: RE: XSLT Automated vs Manual From: Ed Blachman <EdB@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:25:24 -0400 |
If you read the XMLulator info more carefully, you'll see that it still involves a manual step. That product uses a time-honored filter-writing approach: rather than craft specialized mappings between each pair of interesting formats, craft a mapping between each format and some common intermediate format, then derive the filter between any given pair of formats as a combination of the two format<->intermediate mappings. Done right, it indeed affords the benefits they cite -- but that initial mapping still is a manual step. On the other hand, I think you're right that there's still a difference in kind between the two kinds of translations. When translating between two formats with strong and similar semantics -- two "content" formats (I dunno, maybe stuff like parts lists?) or two "presentation" formats, it's possible to imagine a single correct translation derived by something like the XMLulator. On the other hand, translation between formats with dissimilar semantics -- say HTML and some vertical-industry XML language -- is likely to require more effort, as the range of useful translation possibilities is greater. -- ed > -----Original Message----- > From: Iyer, Srinivasan (MLIP - PCC) [mailto:ISrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:18 PM > To: 'xsl-list-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: XSLT Automated vs Manual > > > Hello, > With ref to an article that I read on " automated, > meaning-driven" XML > transformation. " > http://www.charteris.com/xmulator/xmulator_links.htm > I got the impression that in the future( maybe even now ) xml-xml > transformations would be automated/template based mapped by > server softwares > , whereas more detailed translations ( read presentation ) > like xml-html / > xml-wml would still require manual coding. > Do others view the situation in the same light ? > Thanks > Srini > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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