I'm hoping to put together a quick 'preview' of the xml-commons project as an actual release, so we have a base to start discussing future commons work and so other projects can pull a well-known and tagged set of commons files.
For now I'll add a simple HTML doc file and build.xml file, and the 'all' target will produce xml-commons-1.0.D1.tar.gz which will contain a fairly standard distro set. This will include: -- the current set of externally-defined standards based code in xml-commons/java/external, namely DOM L2 (complete), SAX 2.0 (plus minor bugfixes), and JAXP 1.1.3 (the latest JAXP code that Edwin's been working on). -- the one xml 'utility' currently checked in, org.apache.env.Which I'm hoping to do this in the next couple of days so we can use it in next week's xml-xalan 2.2/2.3 releases. I'm not necessarily trying to impose my own standards on all future xml-commons releases; I mainly want to get at least one release out so people can better see what it might continue to evolve into. I'd figure that we'd have several other 'D' (developer, or 'beta' releases leading up to a specific point release) releases before first shipping what we'd call a '1.0' release. Potential other 'D' releases might be one that just has SAX 2.0/JAXP 1.1 strict code (older code that would pass the J2EE CTS; this would just be for convenience to have a well-known and tagged set of these files) and another one if we can get Norm's entity resolver checked in and building. Oh, plus a real XML-based docset integrated with the site, obviously! Comments? - Shane
