[topicmapmail] stupid question?

[Piotr Kaminski]

> | The only thing that springs to mind is tools that
> | convert XTM into structural XML for further XSLT processing. Any
> | such tool that comes to mind, and maybe a standard for (somewhat
> | more) structural representation of TM's?
>
> I know empolis does something like this in K42, but I am not familiar
> with the details. Personally I don't believe in this approach, and
> leave it for other people to try out.

I guess most people already know about this, but just in case...  Check out
Jonathan Robie's work [1] on making XTM documents XQuery-able by putting
them into a normal form.  I suspect the same qualities that make them easier
to query will also make them easier to transform with XSLT.

Not that I believe in this approach either.  :-)

        -- P.

[1] http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/03-01-04.html

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