[tei-council] Roma II

[Peter Boot]

Sebastian Rahtz schreef:

> In general, I agree. but Roma as it stands is
> a bit of a monster, with a mixture of PHP, XSLT, XQuery,
> Javascript, external binaries, etc, and a dependency on eXist running.
> It is not very amenable to development, and is not
> very easy to implement (as witnessed by the fact
> that its not working right at Virginia)

If Roma as it stands now is really unmaintainable, that is of course a 
good reason to do something about it.

> The validation service is not that far off; see
> http://rahtz.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/TEIISO/ for a proof of concept.

This looks very promising. The other options on that menu too are 
intriguing. We'd  be removing another barrier to entry in the TEI world 
if people could apply your stylesheets to their files by uploading them 
to a service like this. And possibly other transformations as well.

> the main advantage is that it would remove the dependency
> on a relatively complex server. you may not realize it,
> but Roma does things like
>    system("trang")
> which is pretty danged scary from a maintenance and
> deployment perspective.

I see