Create a place for gathering requirements from existing and potential users of XProc, research in this area, and for supporting and writing the community-driven effort to define an XProc 3.0 specification (formerly 1.1) .
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
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There’s going to be an XProc Community Group Meeting on 5-6 September, hosted by le-tex publishing services GmbH at their premises, Weißenfelser Str. 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany.
If you’re interested in attending (and you should!) and would like to reserve a room at the hotel where most of us will be staying (a 6-minute walk from the le-tex offices), drop an email to Gerrit Imsieke (gerrit.imsieke AT le-tex.de) and he’ll reserve a room for you.
The XProc face-to-face workshop held in the MarkLogic offices (thanks, MarkLogic!) in London on 11-12 June was a great success. We were able to close a number of outstanding issues and now hope to have the core spec finished by the next f2f meeting, planned to 5-6 September (probably Leipzig, but watch this space).
There will be an XProc workshop in London on 11-12 June, immediately following Markup UK on 9-10 June. We’ll post more information as soon as it becomes available, both here and on Github.
And please – if you have any comments, suggestions, or use cases on the current XProc 3.0 draft, let us know. We hope to have a “candidate release” of the spec ready in the spring, with implementations of that release available in June.
Were you at XML Prague, listening to Gerrit and Achim present the XProc 3.0 draft and thinking we’ve missed something or are doing it wrong? Do you wonder about the usefulness of the XProc draft for your project? Is there something we should do that we aren’t doing? We want to hear from you:
Feedback to the drafts
Input, use-cases, proposals for steps dealing with non-XML documents
Questions, objections, cheers, …
To find out more, participate in the effort or simply get in touch:
I’m happy to report that the XProc workshop in Prague (hosted by XML Prague – thanks!) on Feb 6-7 was a great success. We now have a roadmap that looks like this (borrowed from the XML Prague slides):
Specs split into three documents: core, (required) step library and (optional) step library
Last call draft (of the core spec) “this spring”
Core spec and step spec “candidate releases” ready by June
XML Calabash 2 and MorganaXProc 2 implementations commensurate with CR by June
Erik Siegel’s Programmer Reference for 3.0 also planned for June
Those of you who arrive in Prague on Monday afternoon/evening for the XProc workshop or XML Prague, later in the week, should consider joining us at 7 PM for a pre-workshop dinner at the Sklep. So far it’s just yours truly (Ari Nordström) and Achim Berndzen, but more people may drop in for drinks later.
If you would like to contribute to the wiki, please send a message to Gerrit or me so we will give you editing rights.
If you will attend the workshop but do not find your name on the attendees list, please drop us a note to.
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