RE: build your own transform (RE: infinite depth to namespaces)

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

For HLALs, it's vital.  I would think that 
transforms to different target languages would 
be non-controversial.  Downtranslation is the 
key to enabling authors to work in different 
levels of abstraction, or am I missing your 
point here?

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]

On 30 Aug 2001 17:38:30 -0700, Michael Brennan wrote:
> And none of the protestations on this list (or anywhere else) will ever
stop
> me from doing whatever transformations or filtering on a document instance
> that suit my applications' needs. And if I need to, I'll even write a SAX
> filter that changes element names! <shudder/>  ;-)

That's on my to-do list as well, promise! (Same for attributes.)

It's pretty easy to modify the namespace filter rules to change element
names in-addition-to/in-place-of modifying the namespace.  It's
occasionally useful for transforms between similar vocabularies, like a
single abstract vocabulary expressed in different natural languages.

As always, at your own risk...