Make xproc-interoperability itself interoperable

[bertfrees]

Just seems like a logical thing to do.

[xml-project]

Hi Bert,
good to here from you again. Could you please elaborate your point.

Cheers,
Achim

[bertfrees]

I found this idea somewhere in my notes. Since this project is all about making pipelines compatible with Calabash and Morgana, it just seemed logical to make the pipelines within xproc-interoperability itself compatible with Calabash and Morgana.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting.

[xml-project]

Interesting idea. For the purpose of our talk I always thought of XMLCalabash -> MorganaXProc (running on MorganaXProc).

If I get your idea right, you propose to rewrite the pipeline for XMLCalabash so it can do a MorganaXProc -> XMLCalabash conversion too.

I have to think about it and re-read our article: Apart from the different because underspecified behaviour with p:import I can not name any problems right now. But there are sure some. May be it is worth an investigation.

Since we are working (heavy) on XProc 3.0 specs, I hope we can come to a situation, where no interoperability tool is needed at all.

Achim

[bertfrees]

If I get your idea right, you propose to rewrite the pipeline for XMLCalabash so it can do a MorganaXProc -> XMLCalabash conversion too.

Oh, no actually that's not what I had in mind, although that would be useful too of course.

What I am proposing is to rewrite the pipeline to make it work with XMLCalabash, then run the pipeline through itself in order to make it work with MorganaXProc.