[dsdl-discuss] Re: Some thougts on Part 10

Martin Bryan wrote:
> That's what SC34/WG1 is all about - finding simple solutions to really hard
> problems :-)
>
Unless things have changed (sorry if I am out of date), one original
constraint for DSRL was to limit to what could be done by transformation
with XSLT, from XML document to XML document.

If this is still the case, I wonder what the possibilities are opened up
if DSRL also could generate an OASIS XML Catalog. Would that allow more
entity mapping possibilities?

Now this could be in two ways: one way is that the XML catalog generated
by the first pass of the DRSL process is then used along with the
generated XSLT by the second pass, so that remapped-entity references
are expanded. The second way would be that the output of the DSRL
processor is an XML document with undeclared entity references and that
these then feed into subsequent stages.

The biggest approach here would be to ramp up "XML-in/XML-out" to use
Open Packaging Conventions (or Topic Maps or whatever), so that the
processes become "Compound-XML-in/Compound-XML-out" which is more
realistic, in some ways, but perhaps too radical: it may have
performance implications.

I guess the question we should figure out first is "What is the role of
OASIS catalogs in DSDL?", because many issues resolve themselves if we
agree on an answer to that question.

Cheers
Rick

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