At 02:34 AM 5/29/2003 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Arjun Ray scripsit:
> 
>  > If this is acceptable, then my question is: What is the decision procedure
>  > by which a generic parser-level filter could generate these views, if it's
>  > to take namespaced names as a guide?
> 
> This is a very interesting offshoot of architectural forms.  I'm going to
> mull it a bit more and see what can be done.  Generally speaking the
> rule looks like:  the HTML view converts non-HTML elements to their
> character data, whereas the books view rejects all non-books elements
> including their character data.  There would need to be some document
> that specifies this.

I meant to do something like this back when I did those namespace filters, 
but never got around to it.  It's definitely possible and useful, though I 
worry that an ever-expanding rule set (going too far) might make it less 
exciting.



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