Fast TEI/XML Deployment on Vercel: Automating XSLT Transformation with saxon-js
Introduction A common architecture in Digital Humanities is to transform TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML data into HTML using XSLT and publish it on the web. Traditionally, client-side XSLT transformation in the browser (via <?xml-stylesheet?> or JavaScript’s XSLTProcessor) has been the standard approach, but it comes with several challenges: The browser executes XSLT transformation on every page load, resulting in slow rendering Poor SEO and web crawler support Inconsistent XSLT implementations across browsers This article shows how to run XML-to-HTML transformation at build time on Vercel and serve pre-generated static HTML. ...
