Why This Is Exciting
- Conventional wisdom was that to make XML useful
we must all use the
same tags
- Transformation means maybe not
- Transform my tags into your tags
- Take a small subset of my tags that you can handle
- We can alias elements and content when elements are:
- semantically the same but different names
(purchase-order, po, order,
client-purchase)
- semantically or functionally “close
enough”
(postal-code, zip-code, parish-number)
- my elements are recombinations or subsets of yours
