xml-dev - Re: Architectural Forms and XAF

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>]

[I don't have time at the moment to address Sean's questions in detail,
but I can answer his last question quickly:]

Sean McGrath wrote:
> I see what you have done with the Texas Legislature
> and agree with the reasoning. I just don't see that
> doing it via AFs rather than via an intermediate
> DTD/XSLT has bought you anything other than a whole
> bunch of constraints you would not have had
> if you had gone for the intermediate DTD
> approach.

Because I couldn't do that within the context of ADEPT*Editor and a FOSI
to enable on-screen rendering of the documents *as authored*. In this
environment, doing a transform is not possible (because you're inside
the editor). In addition, doing a down-transformation in other places
may cause you to lose information you need for other processing purposes
(such as generating index entries in the same process that composes the
pages). 

Cheers,

E.

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