Keith Fahlgren <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Norm, > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Norman Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm going to be turning my hands to the XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for >> DocBook again soon, partly with an eye towards making them more >> production ready, partly to try a few experiments. > > Thanks for clarifying that you'll be working on these stylesheets > again, especially in light of Jirka's Google Summer of Code project. > > I think your ideas about dropping normalization, segmenting the > stylesheets into discrete processing chunks rather than always > creating a massive, unified stylesheet, and potentially not seamlessly > handling DB4 are all prudent and justified. What I'd like to > understand is your current thinking on the top three goals of the > XSLT2 reimplementation itself. What are they?
I've written about that a little bit, for example: http://norman.walsh.name/2004/07/27/titlepages but in terms of top three goals, I'd have to say: 1. Move to XSLT 2.0 techniques to both streamline and simplify the stylesheets but also to make them easier to customize and extend. 2. They've grown by accretion for a decade or so, it's time they got a little top-down refactoring and organization. 3. They should be better documented and there should be tests for everything. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[email protected]> | Where it is permissible both to http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | die and not to die, it is an abuse Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | of valour to die.-- Mencius
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