Zebra’s Alvis Filter
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006I’m really excited about Zebra 2.0 — in particular, the Alvis filter. One of its features is the ability to pass searches and results through pre-defined XSLT stylesheets which can be used to do transformations on the XML (request or result). I can imagine all kinds of ways to utilize this for Koha. It’s certainly going to make template design much more flexible. I’m also excited about the prospect of being able to write a stylesheet to define how field weighting should work (instead of the CCL parser I wrote). This should make it much easier for a library to define how searching should behave.