[tei-council] moving to XSLT 2.0
James Cummings
James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sun Mar 8 06:22:15 EDT 2009
As you know I'm in favour of this. XSLT2 is a proven technology with
many benefits in terms of simplifying complex transformations. The only
drawback of it is that there are a limited number of implementations of
XSLT2 processors. However, I think that the stability both of java and
saxon mean that at least the current version will continue to exist far
into the future.
I think moving to Apache Ant for build processes is also a good idea.
Best,
-James
Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I am wondering for the next release of TEI P5 about switching
> the build mechanism to use entirely XSLT 2.0 and the Saxon
> processor.
>
> What do people think? I might also see if the basic processing
> could then be rewritten using ant. Nerdy stuff, I know. It means
> moving to a more Java-based world.
>
> On a related note, I am hoping to make a new release
> of Vesta, the desktop TEI processor, next week; this will
> include a complete parallel set of XSLT stylesheets reengineered
> to take advantage of XSLT 2.0.
>
> And, yes, Laurent, Vesta will support processing "profiles",
> so you'll be able to switch between ISO and other modes; yes, Lou,
> that means there will be an ENRICH profile with its customized
> stylesheets.
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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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