Prof. Marc W. Küster announced XML-Print 1.0 this week, “…an open source XML formatter designated especially for the needs of the Digital Humanties.”
Mapping from “…semantic structures to typesetting styles….” (from below)
We have always mapped from semantic structures to typesetting styles, but this time it will be explicit.
Consider whether you need “transformation” (implies a static file output) or merely a “view” for some purpose, such as printing?
Both require mappings but the later keeps your options open as it were.
Enjoy!
XML-Print allows the end user to directly interact with semantically annotated data. It consists of two independent, but well-integrated components, an Eclipse-based front-end that enables the user to map their semantic structures to typesetting styles, and the typesetting engine proper that produces the PDF based on this mapping. Both components build as much as possible on existing standards such as XML, XSL-T and XSL-FO and extend those only where absolutely necessary, e.g. for the handling of critical apparatuses.
XML-Print is a DFG-supported joint project of the FH Worms (Prof. Marc W. Küster) and the University of Trier (Prof. Claudine Moulin) in collaboration wiht the TU Darmstadt (Prof. Andrea Rapp). It is released under the Eclipse Public Licence (EPL) for the front-end and the Affero General Public Licence (APGL) for the typesetting engine. The project is currently roughly half-way through its intended duration. In its final incarnation the PDF that is produced will satisfy the full set of requirements for the typesetting of (amongst others) critical editions including critical apparatuses, multicolumn synoptic texts and bidirectional text. At this stage it can already handle basic formatting as well as multiple apparatuses, albeit still with some restrictions and rough edges. It is work in progress with new releases coming out regularly.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via our website http://www.xmlprint.eu or directly to print@uni-trier.de. Any and all feedback is welcome. Moreover, if you know some people you think could benefit from XML-Print, please feel free to spread the news amongst your peers.
Project homepage: http://www.xmlprint.eu
Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/
Installers for Windows, Mac and Linux:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xml-print/files/