Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-01-18 Severity: wishlist * Package name : 4dml Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.flatline.org.uk/~silas/4dml * License : GPL Description : A different sort of structured-data transformation utility
4DML is a tool for structure transformation, like XSLT, TXL, Rigal, etc. 4DML's approach is different: You provide a "model" of the desired output structure, and 4DML determines from that model how the input is to be read. This means you don't have to write so many "rules". Although 4DML is slow to run, its models are (in many cases) quicker to write and easier to maintain; hence it can be useful for prototyping transformations. 4DML works by representing the structure in a geometric space with many dimensions, where the model acts as an alternate frame of reference. It can easily handle matrix transposition (sometimes needed in musical notation) and otherwise changing the permutation of different levels of the tree. It's also possible to write transformations that follow links (in either direction). There should be more documentation for 4DML soon because I'm writing up my thesis on it. Anyone intending to package it can contact me about this. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux ssb22 2.4.18 #10 Wed Jul 3 00:22:04 BST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
