XML/XSL Variants

Here is a case I received from a co-worker here at Xerox that we might want
to try to accommodate in our treatment of variants.

>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:06:10 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Corda,Ugo" <Ugo_Corda@es.xerox.com>
>Subject: RE: Meeting Summary: WebDAV and DASL, June 15 - 17, Redmond
>To: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
>Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:15:26 -0400
>Priority: normal
>Hop-Count: 3
>
>Judy,
>
>I was wondering if the current WebDAV Variants specification can handle 
> the case of a single XML document with multiple XSL style sheets associated.
>
>I imagine this is a somewhat special case compared to the usual 
> examples of multiple language versions or multiple renditions (e.g. 
> Word, PDF, etc.) of the same document. Here the different XSLs are not 
> renditions themselves, but they are instead combined with the XML 
> information to produce renditions (via an appropriate processor). Not 
> only the renditions, but the contents of particular renditions can be 
> completely different from each other, depending on what information 
> has been filtered out of the  XML contents in each case.
>
>I can also imagine that this might have significant implications in 
> terms of content negotiation.
>
>Ugo
>

Name:		Judith A. Slein
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