Re: Mapping files?

Martin Bryan wrote:

> Alexander Johannesen wrote:
>
> > if I saw the four-line xSiteable XML syntax, I could very
> > quikly get down to business and understand
> > what it all meant. If I saw the latter 32-line XTM, I would freak out,
and
> > look elsewhere for something simpler.
>
> This is the key, and why the ability to use roles as GIs for applications
of
> the original HyTM was so important to me.

I agree! Same here.

> Its also why tools provide
> specialized UIs or input languages such as LTM. We need a simple way to
> convert from user-models expressed in XML to SAM using XSLT. That's why I
> tried to develop a set of XML Schema based on abstract types back in the
> last century. Until we can take sets of XML codes that conform to our
model
> and map them simply to the model we will not have succeeded.

Martin, what do you mean by that?
I am doing this all the time.
One just needs to be knowledgeable about XSLT and topic map concepts (and
DTD of course).
May be I am missing something? Which "model" are you referring to in the
last sentence?

--Nikita.

Nikita Ogievetsky, nogievet-8d825DyHnH4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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