pf:transform

[bertfrees]

Or: an XPath function that works on nodes in general instead of text nodes (pf:text-transform).

First I have to check whether this is possible at all. (EDIT: yes it is possible)

The function signature would be node()* pf:transform(xs:string type,xs:string query, node()* input). It would use transformers of type "DOMTransform", "SAXTransform", etc.

EDIT: removed 'type' argument because type integrated in query (daisy@b9066cd).

This new approach is clearly more flexible:

• The input text can have semantic info attached, which can be used by the transformer. With pf:text-transform the input to the transformer is limited to the text segments plus style info (CSS). We need to keep a clear distinction between semantics and style.
• The output text could possibly have different semantics (e.g. the "writing system" part of the language tag could be changed).
• The output text could have style info attached, e.g. in case only part of the style at the input was applied.

[bertfrees]

Since c6f8e17, the pf:text-transform function supports an optional "text-attributes" argument. Currently it is interpreted as the locale, but the idea is that we can extend it to a XSLT 3.0 map that can contain other semantic info: map { 'locale': 'en' , ... }.