Re: [emergency] DE and well formed XML

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Adding this topic if fine with me, Lee,

thanks,
Rex

At 8:51 AM -0400 6/5/08, Lee Tincher wrote:
>All,
>
>I'd like to schedule a topic of discussion about 
>a proposal for our future efforts.  While 
>consuming the DE with "any well formed XML" it 
>struck me that we may have an opportunity to 
>make our standards much easier to consume from 
>the developer standpoint.  I would like to 
>propose that we develop an attribute level of 
>something like "Recommended Display" which could 
>have tags like "Title", "Label" and "Length". 
> This would potentially allow a developer to 
>just create a one time (we could provide code 
>samples in differing languages) Form Map to all 
>EDXL payloads.  It needs to be at the attribute 
>level since it would apply to each EDXL element 
>in a payload.
>
>This is different that XSL translation since the 
>XSL assumes you know the structure of the 
>incoming XML and you have created a map based on 
>that knowledge.   This should be mapped to the 
>"language" element we already have and can 
>result in Digest population for the DEŠ..
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>Lee
>
>Action springs not from thought, but from a 
>readiness for responsibility.  - Dietrich 
>Bonhoeffer
>


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