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Posted to dev@cocoon.apache.org by Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org> on 2000/07/01 10:03:26 UTC
Re: [C2] LinkTranslator
Giacomo Pati wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> Does any of the early developer (Stefano, Pier, ?) of C2 still know what
> the class LinkTranslater is for? I've seen such objects are always
> plugged between the components of a pipeline like
>
> generator -> linktranslator -> filter1 -> linktranslator -> filter2 ->
> linktranslator -> serializer
>
> I've seen that those LinkTranslator act on elements from the namespace
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/links.
I came to the conclusion LinkTranslator is harmful because it generates
too much indirection in strong contracts in resource hyperlinking. I
vote to deprecate it and remove it.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<st...@apache.org> Friedrich Nietzsche
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Re: [C2] LinkTranslator
Posted by Giacomo Pati <Gi...@pwr.ch>.
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
> Giacomo Pati wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > Does any of the early developer (Stefano, Pier, ?) of C2 still know what
> > the class LinkTranslater is for? I've seen such objects are always
> > plugged between the components of a pipeline like
> >
> > generator -> linktranslator -> filter1 -> linktranslator -> filter2 ->
> > linktranslator -> serializer
> >
> > I've seen that those LinkTranslator act on elements from the namespace
> > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/links.
>
> I came to the conclusion LinkTranslator is harmful because it generates
> too much indirection in strong contracts in resource hyperlinking. I
> vote to deprecate it and remove it.
Ok, if there is no opposition, I'll kill'em.
Giacomo
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