Legacy from 1.0: 3.10.1 Additional steps and enhancements: p:zip and p:unzip

[xml-project]

3.10.1 Additional steps and enhancements: p:zip and p:unzip 

This is an aggregation of the discussion on "3.10.1 Additional steps and enhancements: p:zip and p:unzip" (Issue 54 of the xproc/1.0-specification)

Opened by: ndw on 2014-08-22, 18:42h

ndw said on 2014-08-22, 18:42h:

The vocabulary of steps available in XProc is extensible. Users and implementors have developed additional steps. For example, to support pipelines that produce EPUB documents or manipulate files on disk. It is worth considering which, if any, new steps should be elevated to the XProc namespace. The candidates include, but are not limited to: 

p:zip and p:unzip 

On 2014-08-22, 18:42h: ndw added requirement should labels.

On 2014-08-25, 22:28h: ndw added this to the XProc 2.0 LC milestone.

On 2015-06-11, 13:01h: xquery added the steps label.

[gimsieke]

Also extend the current EXproc specs for pxp:zip and pxp:unzip with the ability to extract a whole archive to disk (plus an option whether existing files should be overwritten / the extract directory be removed beforehand) and to create an archive from a URI of a file or directory.

[gimsieke]

See xproc/3.0-steps#3 and xproc/3.0-steps#4 for generic archive/unarchive step requests

[ndw]

Closing 45, over taken by 3 and 4 above.