Victor, from the website I don't quite get the scope of the project. That might have to be made clearer. Anyway, I didn't want to talk about it just yet, because it's not ready, but recently I started writing a JAXP-like API for XSL-FO processors (I called in JAFOP for now). It basically implements the ideas we came up with in the API discussion over a year ago. In the next few months I will probably need to integrate several different FO-processors and want to have a common API for all. Especially having a uniform API between FOP maintenance branch and HEAD is important to me because I need to get FOP 0.20.5 set up for PDF output and I will most probably need the RTF output of FOP HEAD quite soon (all in the same VM, of course). Also, the fact that we got 4 OS-FO-processors screams for a common API so they can be used interchangeably.
Can it be that we had the same idea at the same time again? :-) Of course, having standardized validation messages and such goes a bit beyond what I imagined, but that's ok. On 04.11.2004 22:58:39 Victor Mote wrote: > Finn Bock wrote: > > > Do you mean that the 3 different processors should ideally > > report the same validation errors in the same manner? That > > can only happen after someone standardize a SAFO API (Simple > > API for FO parsing). Until then all implementation will throw > > different exceptions, which is fine by me. > > I actually toyed with this idea about two weeks ago. IIRC, the SAFO name is > already taken, but at the time I registered the axsl.org domain, and I > finally went ahead yesterday and opened up a SourceForge project for it. > There isn't much content there now, and I doubt that anyone wants to spend > much time on it ATM, but we have a place to talk about such things for those > who are interested -- I think Joerg at least will appreciate it being > somewhere else, and I know there are others who are not interested as well. > It deals with more than just parsing and exceptions, but those are (or could > be) parts of it. Here is the website: > www.aXSL.org > > If FOP is interested, you are welcome to send a delegate, who will > automatically become a committer. Also, Peter West is welcome to be a > committer -- if we can accommodate his design, we'll sure try. I'll > eventually invite the commercial developers too, if it looks like there is > anything here that helps. Jeremias Maerki
