XSL Transformations

the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. An XML Pipeline specifies a sequence of operations to be performed on zero or more XML documents. Pipelines generally accept zero or more XML documents as input and produce zero or more XML documents as output. Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals, iteration, and exception handlers which control which steps are executed.

# EAD and MARC sitting in a tree: D-R-U-P-A-L Mark Matienzo Yale University Library (ex-New York Public Library)
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OpenLink RDF Browser

I really like the idea of using XSLT to manipulate MARC data -- it's not a perfect translation language, to be sure, but it's a standard, which means it gives us a shared language. We can share tricks, patterns, and entire stylesheets for different purposes, from data conversion to display formatting, and high-performance XSLT processors can be embedded into just about any kind of software platform. The LoC makes a few nice, reusable stylesheets available for MARCXML work -- it would be nice to see something like that evolve into a public repository of stylesheets.

The aim is to show that providing a semantically rich HTML gives much more value to your code: using a semantically rich HTML code allows a better use of CSS, makes your HTML intelligible to a wider range of user agents (especially search engines bots).

This is the namespace document for treetriples, a fairly readable RDF syntax designed for XSLT.