>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Leigh Dodds [mailto:]
>Envoyé : mercredi 30 janvier 2002 14:25
>À : xml-dev
>Cc :
>Objet : [xml-dev] Co-operating with Architectural Forms
>
>
>How do AFs help in this situation?
>
>I'll hazard a response to this question, just to outline my confusion.
>For an AF based solution we get together with X and Y and define
>a meta-DTD. I then re-tool to process data according to the
>meta-DTD, and do the appropriate AF magic to process A & B
>according to this meta-DTD.
>
>Isn't this more work?
That's what I was telling myself, but I'm not sure I have fully understood
AFs.
It seems that format B needs to be redefined to include references to the
common architecture, is it right ? If I have understood it well, the B DTD
needs to be modified to include mappings to AFs and the document instances
in format B must be modified to include PIs that refer to their AF ?
In that case, isn't this process more intrusive and costly than having an
external mapping mechanism ?
Regards,
Nicolas
