ITP: xslj, a XSL processor (XSL is one of the stylesheet format of XML)
I plan to package xslj. xslj can be found at <ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/XSL
J/> and is a XSL processor. XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is one of the
several proposed stylesheet formats for the XML (eXtensible Markup language)
data description language.
xslk works by translating XSL to DSSSL (one of the other formats) and
therefore needs a DSSSL processor (my package will recommend jade, which is in
Debian).
>From the technical point of view, not much to say. xslj depends on libsp
(already in Debian) and compiles fine. Due to the poor state of SGML in Debian
(the SGML subpolicy in sgml-base has not been updated for a long time), I will
take a few liberties: the most important will be to add a directory in
/usr/lib/sgml for stylesheets (there is none specified in the SGMl subpolicy).
It will be named "stylesheet". I'll try to stay close to the proposed standard
(<http://www.sgmltools.org/docs/sgml-dir-standard/t0103.html>, see also bug
#28704).
>From the legal point of view, xslj has its own licence, but it seems DFSG
free. I quote it here, and will discuss it with the upstream author.
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