Simon St.Laurent wrote:

 >  This morning, while reviewing a chapter on WSDL that mentions Schematron,
 >   I started wondering if something like Schematron would make sense
 >  for dispatching.  Schematron is capable of making descisions based on
 >   a much wider range of options than simple namespace-testing, and seems
 >   to deal with a lot of the context-sensitivity issue which panic the
 >   browser people as well.
 > 
 >  Any thoughts on this?  While I don't expect Schematron itself to do
 >  this work, Schematron seems like a great foundation on which to
 >  develop such things.
 > 
I think that this is a great idea - in fact in the very interesting 
schematron-love-in thread on "Workflow, phases and state machines" [1] I 
proposed that we extend Schematron to implement Business Transaction 
protocols.

However it may be that this simply provides a new way to sweep the dirt 
under a different bit of carpet - a protocol is a solution, because it's 
agreed by both sides, but would a standalone dispatcher be specified by 
the document author or consumer?

Francis.

[1] 
http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=5106121&list=6317


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