[tmql-wg] Proposed new requirement: Ability to produce textual output
Lars Marius Garshol
larsga@garshol.priv.no
21 Jun 2003 15:47:23 +0200
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Opinions on this?
* Robert Barta
|
| Well, yes. :-)
Good! :)
| I think this is VERY useful, because it reduces the overlap of
|
| - querying ... getting a result in some form, and
| - templating ... putting the content into a HTML page or whatever
|
| We only would need XML, I reckon, so that the output can be
| posttransformed.
Well, that assumes the users will be happy to use both TMQL and XSLT
to get what they want, rather than use TMQL to produce it directly.
Producing non-XML output is actually quite common; I'm currently
involved in one project where the customer wants a straight text
output from the topic map, using indentation to indicate nesting.
| It would also be possible to create arbitrary text, but then I would
| expect some syntactic problems in TMQL.
I agree that that may be a concern, somewhat dependent on what syntax
we choose for this.
One question is whether we want this in TMQL part 1, or whether we
want it to be a separate part. That would give us:
- part 1: querying
- part 2: updates
- part 3: output
Comments?
| PS: AsTMa? has this feature already: [...]
8^)
--
Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net >
GSM: +47 98 21 55 50 <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >