Re: XML Processing Model - ODF/OpenXML use case

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>/ "Inigo Surguy" <inigo.surguy@csw.co.uk> was heard to say:
>| Hi,
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>| Martin Bryan suggested that I contacted you with this use case for the
>| XML Processing Model.
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>| Looking at the XML Processing Model document, I can't see any use case
>| that directly covers creating ODF/OpenOffice and MS Office 12 documents:
>| which are aggregations of multiple XML files (and other files) inside a
>| zip. 
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>| It's similar to a combination of the "5.6 XQuery and XSLT 2.0
>| Collections" usecase to output a collection of documents, and the "5.4
>| Run a Custom Program" to combine those documents into a zip using a
>| custom program - but use case 5.4 is explicitly about running against a
>| single XML file and displaying it in a browser, which doesn't cover it.
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>| So:
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>| Generate Archive
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>| Several common document formats, such as the OpenDocument Format and MS
>| Office Open XML, use a zip container for multiple XML and non-XML files.
>| To generate these:
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>| 1. Accept a single document as input
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>A single XML document?
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>| 2. Process the document with XSLT to create a collection of documents 
>| 3. Pass the collection of documents to a custom program with some
>| parameters 
>| 4. The custom program combines the documents to a zip archive, and may
>| also include other non-XML resources (e.g. images) identified in the
>| documents.
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>Steps 3 and 4 sound like a custom component to me. Custom components
>can do anything they like so I don't think it'll be difficult to cover
>this use case.
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>I've CC'd the WG list and we'll see about getting this into the
>requirements document.
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>| Inigo
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>| (CSW Group Ltd. is a member of the OpenDocument Format Alliance)
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>| Inigo Surguy
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