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SchXslt maintenance release v1.7.2 removes same-pattern-restriction on abstract rules. Abstract rules are now effectively global by default. This is not “by the specs” but seems to be current practice. https://github.com/schxslt/schxslt/releases/tag/v1.7.2 #schematron #schxslt

The program of Balisage 2021 is out and it is a blast! https://www.balisage.net/2021/Program.html

The specification of the Schematron Validation Report Language (ISO/IEC 19757-3:2020, Annex D) is a mess. The little prose in D.1 is at odds with the RelaxNG in D.2, so is the Schematron schema in D.3. #schematron #svrl #wecandobetter

Pssst… Streaming Schematron rocks. Writing streamable rules and constraints is something to get used to, but validating 7GB of METS records without my laptop breaking sweat is very nice. #Schematron #XSLT3

Release of SchXslt Schematron v1.7.1: This maintenance release fixes a major bug that causes the validation rules to be applied multiple times. https://github.com/schxslt/schxslt/releases/tag/v1.7.1 #schematron #schxslt

Release of SchXslt Schematron v1.7: Bug fixes, support for top-level sch:rules element & xsl:use-package. https://github.com/schxslt/schxslt/releases/tag/v1.7 #schematron #schxslt

Proposed a paper for this year’s #MarkupUK. Still two days left for an extended abstract! https://markupuk.org #xml #markup #digitalhumanities

Added IEG DHLab to Planet Digital Humanities. https://dmaus.name/pdh #DigitalHumanities #DHLab_IEG

Registration for Balisage 2021 is open: https://www.balisage.net/registration.html #xml #markup #digitalhumanities I’ll be there and so should you!

I voted for this year’s DH Award and so should you! http://dhawards.org/dhawards2020/voting/ #digitalhumanities

Another #Schematron enhancement proposal: Allow more XSL elements (xsl:include, xsl:import, xsl:import-schema, xsl:use-package, xsl:accumulator). https://github.com/Schematron/schematron-enhancement-proposals/issues/4

Today I Learned: xsl:namespace-alias only effects literal result elements. It does not effect nodes created with xsl:element, xsl:attribute, or xsl:namespace. #todayilearned #xslt

Today I Learned: Emacs has concept of a side window & provides a myriad of functions to customize the way windows are created & placed (of course it has!). Now will spend afternoon fiddling with my Emacs config. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjOhJMbA-q0 #emacs #todayilearned

Proposing another Schematron enhancement: A container element for abstract Schematron rules https://dmaus.name/blog/2021.02 #Schematron

Working with the #DSpace #JSPUI is like working with the proverbial bad #PHP web application. Tons of business logic in the template generating the view. https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6_x/dspace-jspui/src/main/webapp/search/discovery.jsp

Inspired by a question at xmlcom.slack.com I cooked up Ecstatic, a Java command line application that checks an #XPath expression or an #XSLT stylesheet for static errors. Integration with #Emacs’s Flymake in the making. https://github.com/dmj/ecstatic

I’m happy to serve as reviewer for the ACH conference again. #digitalhumanities @ach2021

Today I Learned: When using the simple map operator ! I use . to refer to the current sequence element in the mapping function. E.g. tokenize(…) ! substring-after(., ‘HANS’) maps the sequence of tokenize() and removes the prefix HANS from every item. #xslt3 #xslt #todayilearned

Working with metadata in DSpace really sucks. A flat record & naming conventions to represent structure is kinda okay. But the contraptions around this model are… Wow. My impression: At some point in time architects left the project and commissioned work just piled on and on.

Release of SchXslt Schematron v1.6.2 https://dmaus.name/blog/2021.01/index.html #schematron #schxslt