# Update.xsl
**URL:** https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719
**Category:** CSL Development
**Created:** [August 9, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719 "2009-08-09T22:31:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719/1 "2009-08-09T22:31:42Z")
So to get a feel for the changes with 1.0, you can run update.xsl,
which is in the scripts dir. I still need to tweak the dates stuff to
match what rintze proposed earlier today, but it only converts dates
to the new localized version if the style is a base style (as
indicated in the metadata).
Bruce
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### Author:  [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719/2 "2009-08-10T05:17:47Z")
> So to get a feel for the changes with 1.0, you can run update.xsl,
> which is in the scripts dir.
I hope to submit a (rough) patch for schema soon. Curious: what software do
you use to apply the update.xsl to a style?
> I still need to tweak the dates stuff to
> match what rintze proposed earlier today, but it only converts dates
> to the new localized version if the style is a base style (as
> indicated in the metadata).
I just checked, and 63 styles specify themselves as “generic-base”,
including some journal-specific styles.
Rintze
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719/3 "2009-08-10T10:53:16Z")
> So to get a feel for the changes with 1.0, you can run update.xsl,
> which is in the scripts dir.
>
> I hope to submit a (rough) patch for schema soon. Curious: what
> software do you use to apply the update.xsl to a style?
Saxon or xsltproc.
> I still need to tweak the dates stuff to
> match what rintze proposed earlier today, but it only converts dates
> to the new localized version if the style is a base style (as
> indicated in the metadata).
>
> I just checked, and 63 styles specify themselves as “generic-base”,
> including some journal-specific styles.
So they should be fixed to remove that category.
Bruce
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### Author:  [@Rintze\_Zelle](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Rintze_Zelle)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/update-xsl/719/4 "2009-08-12T20:41:38Z")
The generic default styles hosted at the style repository are stored
separately (changing the styles in the SVN has no direct impact on them). Am
I correct in assuming the updating of the styles will follow the
introduction of citeproc-js in Zotero? If so, the steps should probably be:
- The Zotero team updates the generic default styles (if applicable)
- update.xls strips generic-base from all styles in the SVN
- update.xls replaces occurrences of cs:date with the localized variants in
the updated generic default styles.
BTW, Nature is both a default (and thus generic-base?) style, as a
journal-specific style.
Rintze