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   Re: [xml-dev] Co-operating with Architectural Forms

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Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 
> * Ronald Bourret
> |
> | How rich are the transformations that AFs can perform? Can they do
> | anything more than renaming?
> 
> They can do slightly more, but not much. They can leave out elements,
> turn elements into attributes, and vice versa. There are also some
> things relating to defaulting etc.

How useful is that in the real world? That is, if company A defines one
format for invoices and company B defines another format, what are the
chances that these are (hierarchically) similar enough that I can define
AFs to process them as a single format? My gut reaction is that this is
unlikely.

-- Ron




 

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