Re: Conformance, Flag, Role/Subject

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 04:36, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> An implementation might also define, or have extension elements/attributes
> for, or have a little-language or configuration for,  a mapping
> between flags and actions.  For example, a flag might be
> "REPAIR-ME", which the implementation uses as its key to
> point the user to something that they should fix.  Or a mapping
> from flags to methods/functions in a particular language.
> 
> So the purpose of "flag" is to provide a way to annotate or signal
> the state of some document or particular nodes, to allow some
> subsequent action. But to do this in a declarative and language-independent
> way.  In many cases, where people might want to put an "action"
> attribute or something similar, which then calls a script or method
> in some language by name, the flag attribute provides a little
> abstraction.   
> 
> Now, of course, it is fine to add elements or attributes in your
> own namespace for extensions, actions and so on. But it was
> felt that since several people have used Schematron to extract
> state information about a document and to trigger actions,
> ISO Schematron should provide something small, non-required
> and relatively clean. 
> 
> The more that language-dependencies (such as JavaScript scripts,
> .NET methods in X++, Java methods, etc) can be removed to other
> layers, the more that implementation-independent schemas can
> be developed. 

I'll toast to that.

It's always good to be reminded that Schematron is in such
clear-thinking hands.

If only the stewards of XSLT had been so clear-thinking they would never
have unleashed the ill-fated XSLT 1.1. and then the still dubious XPath
2.0 and XSLT 2.0 on us.


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