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Jon Knight wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Simon Cox wrote: > > In an earlier posting which sank without a trace (I shouldn't > > have changed the "Subject" field, I guess) I also raised > > what I think is a related question about mechanisms > > for doing the translations between DC and other formats. > > If I am not mistaken, if XML/SGML were used for encoding, > > then this should be manageable with generic tools using DSSSL? > > Or am I really chasing herrings up the wrong tree?? > > Now I'll be the first to admit that I know precious little about DSSSL > but > isn't that more to do with style sheets? A sort of CSS on acid? I > can't > quite stretch my mind around how style sheets interact with resource > type > metadata. Of course if I've misunderstood what DSSSL is, this is a > great > time for someone to explain it to the list... :-) A stylesheet specifies how something stored in a "neutral" format is represented by a user-agent. The transformation is determined through an understanding of how the *meaning* of an object type can be implied to a user. The requirements inherent in mapping from one set of attribute descriptor terms to another mean that a similar method can be used. eg - <H1>content</H1> in HTML -> centred, bold, large font in a graphical browser similarly, we might say Sound as DC.type -> audio as a MIME type -- __________________________________________________ Dr Simon Cox - Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre CSIRO Exploration & Mining, PO Box 437, Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia T: +61 8 9389 8421 F: +61 8 9389 1906 [log in to unmask] http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/CoxSimon/