calabash mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• calabash

Projektgeschichte

Norm Walsh published the XML Calabash status page on 24 August 2008 as an implementation of the then-developing W3C XProc work. The same page records the initial 0.9.0a release on 24 August 2008, a 0.9.0 beta release on 28 November 2008, and a 1.0.0 stable release on 20 January 2012.

The archived 1.x documentation says Calabash is built in Java on top of Saxon and implements XProc, with command-line use through `com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Main`. The current XML Calabash homepage has moved on to XML Calabash 3.x for XProc 3.1, while preserving the 1.x docs as an archive.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Calabash was adopted in the XML tooling community as a practical command-line XProc processor for chaining XSLT, validation, document loading, and other XML pipeline steps. Its status page linked test-suite results, reflecting the XProc community's emphasis on specification conformance.

The 1.x package remained useful for systems built around XProc 1.0 after the W3C Recommendation, while later XML Calabash 3.x moved to the newer XProc 3.1 ecosystem and Codeberg-hosted releases.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run Calabash by placing `calabash.jar` and dependencies on the Java classpath and invoking `java com.xmlcalabash.drivers.Main` with pipeline options and an `.xpl` file. Version 0.9.18 added support for constructing simple linear pipelines directly on the command line with repeated step options.

The tool is mostly a batch-processing component for XML-heavy build, publishing, documentation, and data-conversion workflows rather than a general interactive CLI.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

XML Calabash is significant because it packages an XML standards implementation as a Unix-style command-line tool. It is the kind of package that only a niche group needs, but that group needs it reproducibly in build farms, publishing pipelines, and long-lived XML document systems.

Its history also marks the split between XProc 1.x compatibility tooling and newer XProc 3.x work, which matters when package managers choose old-but-stable implementations for legacy workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 2008: Project status page and initial 0.9.0a release published on 24 August 2008.
• 2008: 0.9.0 beta release published on 28 November 2008.
• 2010: XProc 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 11 May 2010, the version the 1.x project targeted.
• 2012: XML Calabash 1.0.0 stable released on 20 January 2012.
• 2013: XML Calabash 1.0.15 listed as available on the archived status page.
• 2020s: The main XML Calabash site focuses on 3.x, an implementation of XProc 3.1, while archiving the 1.x pages.

Related projects

• Related projects and standards include XProc, Saxon, XML Calabash 3.x, MorganaXProc, XSLT processors, and DocBook/DITA publishing pipelines. Calabash belongs to the broader XML command-line tooling world rather than mainstream application development packages.

Quellen

• https://norman.walsh.name/2008/projects/calabash
• https://www.xmlcalabash.com/
• https://www.xmlcalabash.com/archive-1.x/docs/