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Thanks, those points are good. I will consider them.
Cheers,
Bryan
On 5/8/06, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
> bryan rasmussen wrote:
>
> > So if I tell them, well you can seperate your namespaces out very
> > easily this way, and send them to different processes, then the
> > natural response of the guy in charge on their side is, okay, once
> > I've seperated stuff out why don't I just send namespace a to schemas
> > for a and namespace b to schemas for b? What value do I get from NVDL.
>
> Simple separation of namespaces is not sufficient of validation. NVDL
> allows you to specify how different namespaces can be combined depending
> on context. In your scenario context (which I see as one of the most
> important feature of NVDL) is not taken into account.
>
> >> Do you have any idea how API that returns outcome of NVDL validation as
> >> validated streams your are talking about should look like? I still don't
> >> get it.
> >>
> > It does not actually have to be streams, I just got into talking
> > streams cause it seemed someone else was thinking specifically of
> > streams, perhaps this made things more difficult to communicate. But I
> > would suppose an api would expose something like the following:
> >
> > Nvdl.Instance.Namespaces - an array of namespaces
> > Nvdl.Instance.isValid(namespace) - boolean
> > Nvdl.Instance.validatedXml(namespace)
> >
> > no doubt there would be other things but with this then one could do,
> > as per following pseudocode
> > variable x;
> > for each namespace in Nvdl.Instance.Namespaces
> > if(Nvdl.Instance.isValid(namespace)==True){
> > x=Nvdl.Instance.validatedXml(namespace);
> > DoSomethingWithXml(x)
> > }
>
> Again, such model doesn't take context of XML fragments into account.
> After sectioning you can have multiple fragments from the same namespace
> (for example all SVG images extracted from XHTML page). I think that
> without context you can not reliably and meaningfully process such
> content. Anyway NVDL model with separated sections is built during
> validation in JNVDL, so you can access it if you need it. If there will
> be more interest in such API, we can polish it little bit and made it
> public in future.
>
> Still I think that NVDL alone is not suitable for your task, but I can
> imagine that NVDL + XProc will handle it better.
>
> Jirka
>
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