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Re: profileTransformation makes GRDDL easy for XFN, dublin core, etc.

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:31:50 -0500
To: danny666@virgilio.it
Cc: RDF in XHTML task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Message-id: <1085783510.2323.285.camel@dirk>

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 16:48, Danny Ayers wrote:
> Bravo! Very nice indeed.

/me takes a bow.

> The only thing that concerns me, I assume it's come up before - how does 
> one deal with multiple profiles, where the order in which the XSLT is 
> applied makes a difference?

The order can't make any difference.

If the transformations linked from a document d are x1, x2, and x3,
the result is just x1(doc) + x2(doc) + x3(doc) where + denotes
RDF graph merging, which is associative and commutative.

It's not x1(x2(x3(doc))) or anything like that.

>  (I suspect this could be generally avoided 
> unless there was a naming clash, but I'm not sure).
> 
> Cheers,
> Danny.
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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