2010/12/21 Jacob Nordfalk <jacob.nordf...@gmail.com>
>
>
> 2010/12/21 Francis Tyers <fty...@prompsit.com>
>
> El dt 21 de 12 de 2010 a les 10:42 +0000, en/na Francis Tyers va
>> escriure:
>> > Hi!
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > Btw, thinking about metadix I have some probably unpopular ideas,
>> > that would preclude any standardisation. I think that maybe we should
>> not
>> > have one format, but rather many _codified_ formats depending on the
>> > language(group). For example how to include a verb would be different in
>> > Tajik and Dutch, because different things are important. Unnecessary
>> > examples:
>>
>> I was also looking for this which makes interesting reading:
>>
>> http://www.stanford.edu/~laurik/fsmbook/clarifications/xmldowntrans.html
>>
>>
> Page 2:
>
Sorry, page 3
>
> "However, I myself don't like XSLT, and I'm not alone. For one thing, it is
> based on XSL, intended originally as a stylesheet language, and so has a
> strong bias toward
> reformatting; the underlying assumption is that the original XML text
> contains the data
> you want in the output, and that the problem is basically just to reformat
> that data
> in the output. In practice, my own XML-to-SomethingElse downtranslations
> often
> involve non-trivial conversions that cannot be handled in XSLT, or which
> are extremely
> awkward in XSLT. I find XSLT too limiting; it always seems to be preventing
> exactly
> what I want to do. I want the power of a real programming language like
> Perl or Python
> while doing downtranslation. Finally, XSLT files are themselves in an XML
> format, which some people think is a great advantage. I disagree. XML is a
> Good Thing, but it's possible to take any Good
> Thing too far. Writing XSLT is a kind of programming, and I dislike
> programming in
> XML: it's verbose and not easy for human beings to read."
>
>
> Exactly my words!!
> Lets find an alternative to XSLT that suits our needs and build support for
> that into lt-comp.
>
>
Why not having a GSoC project on this?
The student doesent have to understand much linguistic stuff. He just needs
to get the same output as the XSL transformation, but with a metadix rule
file with a much simpler syntax.
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Jacob Nordfalk
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