RE: Xinclude word-smithing

> From: Ian Davis [mailto:Ian.Davis@talis.com] 
> 
> > From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) [mailto:dbooth@hp.com] 
> > [ . . . ]
> > It is not a matter of associating the right transformation.  
> 
> I believe it is. 

Then please show me what transformation will produce a Faithful
Rendition of that document.  I told you the meaning of that document.
You tell me what transformation to associate with it.

> GRDDL allows a document author to associate
> transformations with their document. It does not licence arbitrary
> transformations to be applied to any document.

I'm not talking about arbitrary transformations.  I'm talking about
producing a Faithful Rendition that is licensed by the document author.


> 
> > The point is that the GRDDL transformation author may not 
> > have control over the meaning of the XML document.  
> 
> True - that's not the goal of GRDDL. The document author has that
> control and will select an appropriate transformation.

Hold on.  You seem to be assuming that the document author can
arbitrarily modify the format or meaning of the document to suit the
needs of the GRDDL transformation author.  That is a bad assumption.
Many XML documents are produced by applications -- not people -- and
their format *cannot* be changed, either because it is too risky or
costly to change the producing application, or because consuming
applications outside the control of the producing application are
expecting that document to have a certain format and meaning.  

If you think GRDDL should not support such uses then please explain why
you believe it is important to restrict GRDDL's functionality this way.


David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software
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Received on Monday, 18 June 2007 01:30:15 UTC