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Examples of how the NineML family of tools can be used

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A family of Earley and Generalized LL (GLL) parsing tools.

This repository hosts the sources for CoffeeGrinder, CoffeeFilter, CoffeeSacks, CoffeePot, and the main nineml.org website. These files used to be in separate GitHub repositories, but have been consolidated into subprojects in a single repository for convenience. The original repositories still exist, partly to point here, but also to host the release packages and pages for the individual websites.

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Documenting the last mile - iXML in XProc under Maven

In my day job we have at least one repository using XSLT 3.0 under XProc 1.0, calling XML Calabash in Maven. I would like to be able to include an iXML-based parse in such a pipeline. In addition to such merely 'practical' uses I hope also to achieve more academic objectives here: https://github.com/usnistgov/ixml-breadboard.

To start on this - seeing the step defined at https://github.com/ndw/coffeepress I need to know how to

• Use an iXML-based parser in a pipeline, with realistic examples (such as the NGAC PML grammar in the repo cited)
• Set up and call my parser from XProc (and ideally from XSLT also)
• Set up and call such an XProc using Maven (and gradle?) and a bash script or functional equivalent

Having produced a working example I could contribute back by writing it up.

@ndw kindly assist - where do you recommend I go next: is there an example for me to see and deconstruct?

iXML inside Saxon inside XProc?!

Very pleased by progress and demonstrations in saxon and xproc-1.0 subdirectories. I am having some success in trials.

I am wondering if there is an equivalent to -init org.nineml.coffeesacks.RegisterCoffeeSacks in the call to Saxon, that can configure CoffeeSacks for use in XSLTs run from inside XML Calabash. In other words, a combination -- an XSLT given in or called from a pipeline in xproc-1.0 with access to the cs extension functions.

I did find ndw/xmlcalabash1#335 which seems to get me close but not quite all the way - advice? thanks!

More robust Saxon download in saxon download-jars script

Still learning how to curl, I found I needed to change

HOWTO/saxon/download-jars.sh

Line 32 in f406f3a

curl -s -o SaxonHE12-3J.zip https://www.saxonica.com/download/SaxonHE12-3J.zip

to add an -L flag - otherwise the file was coming out empty.

(I might make a PR but I have no fork yet, apologies, to say nothing of the chance it is my brain that requires the edit.)

Thank you!