Spritser: an ITS implementation

Spritser is an implementation of W3C ITS draft specification. It works by reading an XML document and its ITS rules (builtin, as an external document, or on instance elements), and generating an XML output file. Currently three forms of output can be produced:

An XHTML file showing the original XML as verbatim text, with an ITS data category highlighted in colour
An XML file with an ITS data category attached to every element, derived from the rules; this is suitable to feeding through a pipeline of transformations, one for each data category
A debug format for comparison with other tools

The tool works by generating an ad hoc XSLT transformation from the instance file and its rules, which can then be applied back to the instance file.

The components of Spritser are as follows:

Spritser.sh	Example Unix shell script to run Spritser on an XML file and generate test output. The parameter `itsRuleName` is used to set the data category rule which you want to process; it defaults to ‘translateRule’. HTML output is created with the `--html` parameter.
spritser.xsl	Main Spritser transformation
sprits_tohtml.xsl	Generate HTML display output from flattened file
sprits_totest.xsl	Generate test output from flattened file
inherite_translate.xsl	Apply inheritance for ITS translate data category
its.css	CSS used by HTML display
verbatim.xsl	Auxiliary used by HTML display

Spritser is issued under the LGPL licence.

See ChangeLog for ongoing progress.