Suitability of Fluent for the CSL project?

bdarcus · June 6, 2023, 2:56pm

About 20 years ago, I create the Citation Style Language, which is an XML DSL for citation and bibliography configuration.

It includes a template language, that I think in retrospect is probably more complicated than it needs to be, and a localization system, with XML files that hold standardized “terms”.

We now have over 10,000 styles, and tons of localization files.

Here’s an example style, for APA:

github.com

citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/apa.csl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style xmlns="http://purl.org/net/xbiblio/csl" class="in-text" version="1.0" demote-non-dropping-particle="never" page-range-format="expanded">
  <info>
    <title>American Psychological Association 7th edition</title>
    <title-short>APA</title-short>
    <id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa</id>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa" rel="self"/>
    <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa-6th-edition" rel="template"/>
    <link href="https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples" rel="documentation"/>
    <author>
      <name>Brenton M. Wiernik</name>
      <email>zotero@wiernik.org</email>
    </author>
    <category citation-format="author-date"/>
    <category field="psychology"/>
    <category field="generic-base"/>
    <updated>2022-10-02T20:08:41+00:00</updated>
    <rights license="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License</rights>
  </info>
  <locale xml:lang="en">

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As I’m looking into creating a new version of the language, localization is obviously something I’d like to address. And and if I could remove the template language entirely, that’d be even better.

So I thought I’d just ask: how suitable might fluent be for such a project (written in Rust)?