- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:16:27 -0800
- To: daniel@veillard.com
- Cc: tvraman@almaden.ibm.com, Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com, Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Daniel -- I agree it's not easy.
However, in the absence of something consistent like this,
everyone is being forced to define special syntactic sugar and
special rules in each of their XML vocabularies to essentially
achieve the same effect.
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com> writes:
Daniel> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:23:17AM -0800, T. V. Raman
Daniel> wrote:
>> In general, having the ability to use AVTs (Attribute
>> Value Templates) anywhere in XML -- rather than just in
>> XSLT would be a huge win for a lot of use cases.
Daniel>
Daniel> Hum, AVTs are an escaping meachnism. That would
Daniel> mean you need to define when/where that escaping need
Daniel> to be undone and define XPath for anywhere in the
Daniel> document, there is arbitrary set of informations
Daniel> (like the prefix mappings, variables, current node
Daniel> set, position, ...) that would need to be
Daniel> defined. It doesn't sound that easy to me :-)
Daniel>
Daniel> Daniel
Daniel>
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--raman
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