RE: XSLT extension action - continued

Hello,


> "Transform" is a very nice name in case of XSLT and XSL-FO
> (both available through eDIB). But, for XProc and XQuery this
> name is not so intuitive.

In the cases of XSLT, XQuery and XProc, when these processes are applied to an instance data the result will be a a new structure (or at the very least the same structure (identity)) so I think the most common and broadly understood term to describe what has happened to the instance data is a transformation. Therefore, calling the action xf:transform would seem, to me, to be the most obvious choice.


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Subject: Fw: XSLT extension action - continued


Hi,


"Transform" is a very nice name in case of XSLT and XSL-FO (both available through eDIB). But, for XProc and XQuery this name is not so intuitive. There is no other verb in English, which could describe such data processing step? I know that, in XForms, all actions are "processing steps" (e.g. insert, setvalue, delete, etc.), but there is also a container for them, namely "action" element.

Couldn't we find another more general name?


Claudius Teodorescu
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