Re: General Transformation API

[pg]

It is an interesting idea, and probably worth a try.

I envision it as a set of XML tag describes things like:

• Steps
• The original format for each step
• The destination format for each step
• The tool used for each step

And a set of programs interpret those tags and execute them.

I suggest you spend time to make the tags right, and their meanings of really clear. Do it right from the beginning.

[hanenkamp]

At the very least, for my own needs, I need a tool that can auto-detect namespaces and the stylesheets that can get them from a source format to a sink. The other transformation ideas may be desireable, but I haven't even sold myself on those.

I may end up just doing the XML namespace bit and leave it at that and perhaps continue to hypothesize about the other until I get tired of the idea or come up with a clever solution.