Re: Serialization Analysis and Proposal

/ Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> was heard to say:
| On 5/16/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|> [...]
|> And the p:store, p:http-request, etc. components would all treat an
|> input document with a root element of c:serialized-form in a special
|> way.
|>
|> Is that right?
|
| Yes, exactly. And the same system can be extended to support binaries
| (XSL-FO producing PDF, SVG transformed in a PNG, processor packing a
| number of XML documents into a zip, etc).

It's an interesting trade-off. I like the fact that it puts the whole
serialization package into a single step. But I'm a little bit
uncomfortable with the fact that it means every step (and every
extension step) has to examine the root element of the document(s) it
receives and potentially behave differently for the c:serialized-form
document(s).

What do others think?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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