The final release of P5 has some new elements in the transcr module which can replace the use of SVG in IMT files. This will make life much simpler, so I will be converting the application over to this new format for version 1.7. The first stage in doing this was to generate a schema from ROMA, and to write a conversion file (in XSLT) to get us from version 1.6 files to the new output format. I've now done that, and sent a sample file to Conal T, who's one of the prime movers in the facsimile proposal, to see if he's happy with the structures I'm using.

Once I get the OK on this, I can move forward with the conversion. These will be the steps:

• Create the rest of the conversion XSLT files, to handle older IMT version files.
• Create a range of sample files in the new format.
• Rewrite the application file-reading code to read in the new format.
• Test the read capabilities.
• Rewrite the file-saving code so that it produces the new format.
• Test round-tripping files carefully.
• Rewrite the Web View output code so that it works with the new format.
• Rewrite the DocBook import/export code to do the same thing.
• Update the documentation.
• Build and installer.
• Test, test, test...
• Release.