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As this thread is progressing, I have notified David Webber, CAM TC
Chair, and have recommended that he check the archives since he is not
subscribed to XML-DEV. I hope to then forward to this list one or more
responses from David.
Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz Allen Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World
"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
>
> Would it be fair to say CAM is a dynamic document generator
> using boilerplate libraries?
>
> That's not perjorative. We've been building these since
> the CALS days and before. The difference is we didn't use
> markup as the syntax for functions. (Thou Shalt Not
> Program in Markup: the early ISO dictum that held SGML's
> head under water while other declarative systems with
> better political positions pushed hypermedia to the
> side in favor of more complex solutions and vendors).
>
> So why would I want to use CAM templates over SQL
> stored queries and merge-laden scripted functions?
> I'm reading the document cited in the last email,
> not all of them, so I may miss something important.
>
> len
>
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Kind Regards,
Joseph Chiusano
Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton
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