[dsdl-comment] Re: Are these two NVDL documents equivalent? (one usesa mode, the other doesn't use a mode)

2008/5/12 George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>:
> You should think of NVDL in terms of XSLT processing, the rules can be
> thought as XSLT templates. In fact, in the XSLT 2.0 implementation of the
> NVDL dispatching from oNVDL they are converted exactly to templates.
>
> Here it is what the oNVDL XSLT 2.0 implementation does if we take the A
> inside B sample:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <b xmlns="http://www.B.org">
> <a xmlns="http://www.A.org"/>
> </b>
>
> It creates the namespace sections putting a section element for each
> namespace:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <n:section xmlns:n="http://www.oxygenxml.com/nvdl" ns="http://www.B.org">
> <b xmlns="http://www.B.org">
> <n:section ns="http://www.A.org">
> <a xmlns="http://www.A.org"/>
> </n:section>
> </b>
> </n:section>
>
> The NVDL script
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <rules startMode="start"
> xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/nvdl/ns/structure/1.0">
> <mode name="start">
> <namespace ns="http://www.A.org">
> <validate schema="A.xsd" />
> </namespace>
>
> <namespace ns="http://www.B.org">
> <validate schema="B.rng"/>
> </namespace>
> </mode>
> </rules>
>
> is converted automatically by an XSLT stylesheet into the following
> stylesheet, note the templates matching sections for each namespace:

<snip/>

Which does make it easier for me to understand. Thanks George.

It does make me wonder what purpose the startMode attribute serves?
If it is *not* the 'first' (in document order), then why is it there?

regards

-- 
Dave Pawson
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