Re: [xsl] What is the relationship between transforming, mapping, and filtering?

["Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This punter's US$.02:

Transformation: the generic term for the overall process.

Mapping: the creation of output that corresponds directly to some input on
a fine-grained level.

Filtering: choosing what information to map (or not).

Enriching: adding additional information to that output that does not have
the input as origin, perhaps from a separate data source or some
business/logical rules, possibly constructed by the mapping process itself.



On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 19:58 Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> How do you define those terms? Are they synonymous? Is one a subset of
> another?
>
> By "mapping" I mean populating XML instances of one data standard with
> data from another data standard. For example, I am currently mapping a
> military air navigation data standard to a civilian air navigation data
> standard.
>
> By "filtering" I mean performing actions on data such as redacting,
> fuzzing, and zeroing. One could think of these actions as mapping: if I
> fuzz a lat/long location, I am essentially mapping the location to another
> location.
>
> By "transforming" I mean all the kinds of things you can do with XSLT.
>
> Is filtering a subset of mapping? Is mapping a subset of transforming?
>
> /Roger