Re: Abbreviated Tag Names

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:
> 
> It seems like there are a substantial number of cases where 1-1 equivalence
> actually happens in the world - abbreviation and translation being the two
> largest.  I'm pondering (haven't yet built) a thesaurus processor, which
> lets you feed in a set of rules and specify which set applies, and then run
> it over documents.

It reminds me of a proposal done on a XMLfr mailing list [1] (the link
is in French, but a babelfish translation should be enough to give the
idea(s)).

One of the things I had been thinking of was, as you mention, to use
simple translation tables with a simple SAX filter.

The translation tables could define the mapping of similar vocabularies
using distinct namespaces such as:

<translations 
  xmlns="http://xmlTranslations.org/ns/tables" 
  xmlns:en="http://www.josebove.org/ns/activists#en" 
  xmlns:fr="http://www.josebove.org/ns/activists#fr" 
  xmlns:hi="http://www.josebove.org/ns/activists#hi" 
  > 
  <element 
    en:name="doc.en" 
    fr:name="doc.fr" 
    hi:name="doc.hi" 
    /> 
  <element 
    en:name="call" 
    fr:name="appel" 
    hi:name="..." 
  > 
    <attribute 
      en:name="level" 
      fr:name="niveau" 
      hi:name="..." 
    > 
  </element> 
</translations> 

Eric

[1] http://xmlfr.org/listes/xml-decid/2000/0126.html

> It does less than XSLT and carries less freight than XML Schema equivalence
> classes, which seems like a good thing to me.  I suspect it won't be that
> hard to implement as a SAX filter, XSLT transform, or DOM processor, though
> I'm still getting started.
> 
> Dictionary files add more weight, of course, but there might be ways to get
> around that for a lot of projects.
> 
> I wasn't planning on mentioning it until I had something to show, but since
> you mentioned....
> 
> Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
> XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
> XHTML: Migrating Toward XML
> http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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