{"id":238,"date":"2006-04-28T09:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/04\/28\/convert-p4-to-p5\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:43:20","slug":"convert-p4-to-p5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/04\/28\/convert-p4-to-p5\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert P4 to P5"},"content":{"rendered":"

An XSLT stylesheet for converting P4 to P5
\nhttp:\/\/www.tei-c.org\/Activities\/META\/p4top5.xsl<\/a><\/p>\n


\nand some additional advice, and a book recommendation from David Sewell:
\n>> a) all the references to TEI element names need namespacing, ie prefixing
\n>> with tei:. This is hard to automate (think of \/\/p[1]\/emph[@rend=’foo’]\/@id)
\n>> I believe XSLT 2.0 might make a 2-in-1 stylesheet possible.
\nXSLT 2.0 has one great advantage for people wanting to adapt P4-based
\nstylesheets to P5 TEI-XML: the element can take an
\nattribute “xpath-default-namespace” that specifies the namespace to
\nuse for unprefixed elements. So starting a stylesheet with<\/p>\n

eliminates the need to insert all those “tei:” prefixes. (Even if
\nprefixing can be 100% automated, unprefixed XPath is easier for human
\nreaders.)
\nIt’s true that there is (for practical purposes? or genuinely? I’m not
\nsure) just one implementation of XSLT 2.0, Michael Kay’s Saxon 8
\n(www.saxonica.com), but it’s an awfully good one, it comes in a
\nplatform-independent Java version, and the basic Saxon-B version is open
\nsource and free.
\n[begin rant] I would urge, exhortate, plead with, annoyingly evangelize
\nanyone who uses XSLT 1.0 at all heavily to learn about version 2.0. It is
\nso much more powerful that you’ll never look back once you’ve started
\nusing the new features. For the TEI community’s purposes, a lot of the
\ndifference is the vast improvement in string handling from the new
\nfunctions introduced in XPath 2.0 (which underlies both XQuery 1.0 and
\nXSLT 2.0).
\nSo much so that the best way to transition to XSLT 2, I think, would be to
\nwork through the core chapters of Michael Kay’s book “XPath 2.0:
\nProgrammer’s Reference”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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