[tei-council] Roma II

[Daniel O'Donnell]

Sebastian,

Could I ask you to throw a TEI logo up there as well? We should get in
the habit of branding these things, even at the draft stage.

-dan

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:20 +0100, Peter Boot wrote:
> 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
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