On Tuesday, 02. July 2002 21:53, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> Providers should be stackable.
>
> What if you have a CMS provider that sucks data from a DB. But say you want
> to run that through the POD provider, or the HTML provider? You can't. That
> needs fixed.
IMHO, they should be separated. Providers serve two purposes, one is "get me
the data from somewhere", the other one is "make that a double XML with soda,
please".
As Kip says, the current system works well enough, so I agree with him, there
is no immediate need. If anyone ever tackles this, I think those two tasks
should be split into (Data) "Access" and (XML) "Prepare" (or whatever naming
scheme you come up with). Of course, there would be a null prepare module,
for when we already have XML.
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