On 12/30/05, Sylvain Wallez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The W3C recently set up an "XML Processing working group"[1] whose > primary goal is to define an XML processing language (i.e. pipelines).
Wow, innovation at work! :-) > AFAIU the group's direction is not to reinvent something new, but to > standardize what already exists, taking as inputs two pipeline languages > that were submitted as W3C notes, namely Norman Walsh's[2] and XPL from > Orbeon[3] (that BTW they claim to be the pipeline language "that has in > fact been used the most"[4]. > > My impression is that what this WG will end up defining yet another > programming language in XML, and that this language will either be very > limited in the processing types it allows in order to be implemented on > a wide range of platforms (including browsers), or allow a lot of > extensibility, thus actually limiting its portability. > > WDYT, should we join the party? I'm not that much interested into yet another DSL expressed in XML, and I don't feel alone at all. Actually I'd much rather drift towards a programmatic pipeline API. Anyone has the guts to start a JSR on that? :) -- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com Orixo, the XML business alliance: http://www.orixo.com (blogging at http://www.rabellino.it/blog/)
