Transformations

Making File Conversions Fun and a Way of Life

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Table of Contents

Working with Data Differently

Clean labeled structures

Have it your way

Traditional models for data aggregation

XML: Just enough standardization

How data can learn from documents

How documents can learn from data

Schemas for Interchange

Accepting information from the outside world

Moving past the simple

A multi-pronged strategy

Transformation is a normal process

Types of transformation

Translation/Repackage

Fragmentation

Supplementing

Structuring Transformations

Reusing Transformations

Establishing Transformation Pathways

DOCTYPE, Namespaces, Schemas

Relationship-based Processing

From specifying to training

Combining human and machine intelligence

A closer look at transformative tools

XSLT, part 1

XSLT, part 2

Omnimark

Custom-built Text Processing

Custom-built XML processing

What's missing?

Keeping meaning local

Transformations vs. the Semantic Web

Transformations and the Semantic Web

Where to go from here

Questions