Re: [xml-dev] RDDL and XSLT

["Garret Wilson" <garret@globalmentor.com>]

Lyndon,

 

As Jonathan pointed out, you can use an RDDL purpose for this.

 

If you prefer a more RDF-centric approach, check out http://www.xpackage.org/ .

 

Cheers,

 

Garret

----- Original Message -----

From: Lyndon J B Nixon

To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 9:25 AM

Subject: [xml-dev] RDDL and XSLT

I've been wondering about how one could define a standard set of transformation rules for a XML vocabulary, and thought RDDL might be the solution but the specification is not very informative. In terms of an application accessing a XML file in some proprietary format, the question is how can an application determine how we can transform this file into a format that can be presented to the user e.g. XHTML. RDDL could allow that information to be accessible from the namespace URI. I envisage this form of usage:

<rddl:resource  xlink:role="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        xlink:arcrole="... namespace URI of XSLT output eg XHTML ..."
        xlink:href=" ... " />

 This could be a standard way for authors and applications alike to locate required XSLT resources. Comments?

Lyndon

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