SaxonJS/NodeJS/Typescript deployment

[wendellpiez]

User Story:

Developers of Metaschema-based technologies may wish to deploy XSLT-based tooling to be used in and by Typescript-based and NodeJS-based tooling and scripting. This could be in support of and complementary to functional metaschema-awareness in Typescript.

Now that normalized metaschema inputs without entity references are available for OSCAL, for example, there may be nothing inhibiting an OSCAL deployment of metaschema-xslt tooling under NodeJS.

This starts with compiling the XSLTs into SEF files for Saxon, coding up interfaces to use the Saxon API. We could do that here and rapidly deploy such a platform for OSCAL (or any other metaschema-based tech) in an appropriate repo.

Goals:

• [ ] Break this out into Issues:

• Compile SEFs from relevant XSLTs and demo functionality under SaxonJS

  • (We can fast-forward to a 'real' metaschema if we like)

• Provide scripting/APIs for use within Typescript

  • Only what we are already doing in bash/maven/Saxon etc.

• Provide Typescript-based wrapper for operating metaschema-xslt

  • schema generation both XSD and JSON Schema
  • converter generation? converter operation?
  • InspectorXSLT generation, inspector-based validation

Dependencies:

None known currently. Success of the endeavor does depend on the capability and usefulness of the tools, so unit testing the Inspector etc.

Acceptance Criteria

This can be a tracking Issue.

• [ ] Spinoff Issues are created and linked from this Issue
• [ ] Spinoff Issues are closed