- From: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:07:08 -0700
- To: public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
On 5/16/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: > / Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> was heard to say: > [...] > | So instead of having serialization options on all those components, we > | created one component that does XML serialization into an XML document > | with just a root element. We called this a converter. And all the > | components work with this pre-serialized form. > > So, let me see if I understand. If we called it p:serialize then > this step: > > <p:serialize> > <p:input port="source"> > <p:inline> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <head> > <title>Some Title</title> > </head> > <body> > <h1>Some <br/>Title</h1> > </body> > </html> > </p:inline> > </p:input> > <p:option name="method" value="html"/> > </p:serialize> > > would produce something like: > > <c:serialized-form><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "..." "..."> > <html> > <head> > <title>Some Title</title> > </head> > <body> > <h1>Some <br>Title</h1> > </body> > </html></c:serialized-form> > > 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. > Why wouldn't we use p:escape-markup (which was called p:serialize) and just allow it to escape the document? We would have to add an option for the document element wrapper name. I've already mentioned that we need to add serialization options to this step anyway. -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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