[tei-council] moving to XSLT 2.0

[Elena Pierazzo]

Can't wait (no irony).
Elena

Arianna Ciula wrote:
> Same here.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU [mailto:tei-council-bounces at lists.village.Virginia.EDU] On Behalf Of David Sewell
> Sent: lundi 9 mars 2009 15:36
> To: Sebastian Rahtz
> Cc: TEI Council
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] moving to XSLT 2.0
>
> I would strongly support a migration to XSLT 2.0, which in the long run
> would, I think, make it easier to maintain the stylesheets and for
> multiple developers to work on them.
>
> David
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> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
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>> 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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