XML Pipelines and XProc 3.0: Report of the WG Meeting in Aachen – CCeH

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2018/02/16/xml-pipelines-and-xproc-3-0-report-of-the-wg-meeting-in-aachen-cceh/ OpenMethods introduction to: XML Pipelines and XProc 3.0: Report of the WG Meeting in Aachen – CCeH 2018-02-16 15:45:38 Introduction: Processing XML flows has sometimes been a complicated affair traditionally, and XProc was designed to standardise and simplify the process by using declarative XML pipelines to manage operations. This blog post by Gioele Barabucci presents conclusions from a meeting in late 2017 of the XProc 3.0 working group, exploring the latest emerging version of the standard and the kinds of challenges it will overcome. Paul Spence http://cceh.uni-koeln.de/2017/09/19/xml-pipelines-xproc-3-aachen/ Blog post Conversion Data Data Recognition English Organizing Preservation Publishing Sharing Text via bookmarklet XML XProc

Introduction by OpenMethods editor (Paul Spence): Processing XML flows has sometimes been a complicated affair traditionally, and XProc was designed to standardise and simplify the process by using declarative XML pipelines to manage operations. This blog post by Gioele Barabucci presents conclusions from a meeting in late 2017 of the XProc 3.0 working group, exploring the latest emerging version of the standard and the kinds of challenges it will overcome.

An XML pipeline is a series of steps though which an XML documents flow […]. However, in contrast with a shell script, XProc pipelines are: Declarative […]; Portable […]; Specialized for XML […]; Can have more than one input and produce more than one output; Easily extend to intricate pipelines with loops and parallel branches.

Original publication date: 19/09/2017.

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