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  <h1>Process for refining Xerces2 requirements.</h1>
  <p><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a> and <a 
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ed 
    Staub</a> will act as moderators. They will propose recommended changes 
each 
    week, based on the input already received, with a goal of having 
requirements 
    that are sufficiently clear to allow us to proceed with design and 
implementation. 
  </p>
  <p>Five to ten requirements will be opened each week. The moderators will 
propose 
    a final version of each, and offer it up for a vote.</p>
  <p>Proposals will sometimes be rejected. Sometimes we�ll need to make changes 
    before voting again. Sometimes it will be impossible to get a consensus. 
</p>
  <p>The votes will be based on standard <a 
href="http://xml.apache.org/decisions.html";>XML 
    Apache process</a>. All votes are welcome, but only committer votes are 
binding. 
  </p>
  <p>First, a consensus vote will be taken. If a consensus cannot be reached, 
we'll 
    attempt to rework the language so that a consensus can be reached by people 
    withdrawing their "-1"s. Votes will be closed a week after the last 
_substantive_ 
    language changes. </p>
  <p>If a consensus appears achievable but needs more time, Ted and I may call 
for 
    a second consensus vote. When a consensus clearly cannot be reached, a 
_majority_ 
    vote will be taken. </p>
  <p>The final votes of each voting committer will be recorded in the <a 
href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/issues.html";>requirements 
    document</a>.</p>
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  <title>Proposed Xerces2 Requirements -  15 September 2000</title>
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  <h1>Proposed Xerces2 Requirements</h1>
  <h4>Date: 15 September 2000<br>
    Editors: &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ed 
Staub</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
  </h4>
  <hr>
  <h2>Schema</h2>
  <p>Proposed requirements are organized into categories. &nbsp;Some 
requirements 
    occur in more than one category in the future.</p>
  <p>Each requirement has a number. Underneath the number is a "hardness" 
    and "status".</p>
  <dl>
  <dt>Possible "hardness" values are:</dt>
  <dd>
  <b>hard</b> - Xerces2 must and shall meet this requirement<br>
  <b>soft</b> - Xerces2 should meet this requirement, but it may be dropped 
      because of conflicting requirements or time pressures</dd>
  <dt>
  <br>
      Possible "status" values are:</dt>
  <dd>
  <span style="background-color:aquamarine"><b>approved</b> - there appears to 
be a clear consensus</span>
  <br>
  <b>tooQuiet</b> - there may be a consensus, but there hasn't been enough 
      input to be sure <br>
  <b>hardnessConflict</b> - there is conflict over whether this is a hard or 
      soft requirement<b>
  <br>
      vetoConflict</b> - there is a conflict over whether this proposed 
requirement 
      is a requirement at all<br>
  <span style="background-color:silver"><b>rejected</b> - the proposed 
requirement appears to be dead</span>
  <br>
  <b>unevaluated</b> - editor hasn't finished reviewing input
                                        </dd>
  </dl>
  <hr>
  <h2>Requirements by Number</h2>
  <a href="#req.1" style="background-color:aquamarine">1</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The code shall be maintainable and simple to read.<br>
  <a href="#req.2" style="background-color:aquamarine">2</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser should have a competitive memory footprint 
(competitive
  against the other Java based parsers out there).
  <br>
  <a href="#req.3" style="background-color:aquamarine">3</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser shall be designed so as to allow deployment 
of minimal subsets suitable for low-end, memory-constrained appli...<br>
  <a href="#req.4" style="background-color:aquamarine">4</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser shall run well on all virutal machines and   
                shall not be optimized toward a particular virtual machine.<br>
  <a href="#req.5" style="background-color:aquamarine">5</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        Optimizations that interfere with readability,        
modularity, or size should be shunned.  <br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.6" style="background-color:silver">6</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser should have the smallest possible 
distribution (JAR) size.<br>
  <a href="#req.7" style="background-color:aquamarine">7</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The design of the parser should be documented, with 
diagrams where they are more expressive than text.<br>
  <a href="#req.8" style="background-color:silver">8</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser should have the characteristics needed for 
it to be included in the JDK.<br>
  <a href="#req.9" style="background-color:silver">9</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser should be upwardly compatible with 
Xerces.<br>
  <a href="#req.10" style="background-color:aquamarine">10</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser shall be cleanly modular.<br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.11" style="background-color:snow">11</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        Development should be coordinated with xerces-c.<br>
  <a href="#req.12" style="background-color:aquamarine">12</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser shall support SAX2.<br>
  <a href="#req.13a" style="background-color:snow">13a</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                Read-only, memory conservative, high 
performance DOM subset. In some  ways, this is optional, since the 
alternative...<br>
  <a href="#req.13b" style="background-color:snow">13b</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                parse-next function, with added control over 
buffer size.  <br>
  <a href="#req.13c" style="background-color:snow">13c</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                Some sort of way to tell if a SAX char buffer 
is going to be  overwritten, so data doesn't have to be copied until ...<br>
  <a href="#req.13d" style="background-color:snow">13d</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                Serialization support, as is currently in 
Assaf's classes.  <br>
  <a href="#req.13e" style="background-color:snow">13e</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                Schema data-type support, which will be needed 
for XSLT2, and Xalan 2.0  extensions. <br>
  <a href="#req.13f" style="background-color:snow">13f</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        
                                Small core footprint for standalone, compiled 
stylesheet capability, for  use on small devices. This would need to ...<br>
  <a href="#req.14" style="background-color:aquamarine">14</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                        The parser shall validate XML 1.0.<br>
  <a href="#req.15" style="background-color:aquamarine">15</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support namespaces.<br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.16" style="background-color:aquamarine">16</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support DOM Level 2. <br>
  <a href="#req.18" style="background-color:aquamarine">18</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support XML Schema. <br>
  <a href="#req.19" style="background-color:aquamarine">19</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support XPath. <br>
  <a href="#req.20" style="background-color:snow">20</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support XInclude. <br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.21" style="background-color:snow">21</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support write validation of a DOM 
tree or revalidation. <br>
  <a href="#req.22" style="background-color:snow">22</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support grammar access for both DTD 
and Schema. <br>
  <a href="#req.23" style="background-color:aquamarine">23</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         No significant speed penalty should be invoked for 
unused features, notably validation. When not validating, the parser...<br>
  <a href="#req.24" style="background-color:aquamarine">24</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should provide best-of-breed performance 
across all JIT's (not just Hotspot). Such performance
  shall not com...<br>
  <a href="#req.25" style="background-color:aquamarine">25</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support grammar caching and 
precompilation. <br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.28" style="background-color:aquamarine">28</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         Xerces Native API.  The parser should provide a 
reasonable core API (fast!) upon which to layer other API's.  Examples ...<br>
  <a href="#req.29" style="background-color:aquamarine">29</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The project should produce testcases for both 
conformance and benchmarking.  <br>
  <a href="#req.30" style="background-color:silver">30</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parse shall support SAX 1 <br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.31" style="background-color:snow">31</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The core parser should not directly support any tree 
model. <br>
  <a href="#req.32" style="background-color:silver">32</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support Java 1.1 <br>
  <a href="#req.33" style="background-color:snow">33</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support loading and validating only 
certainrequested portions of a document -- a useful feature  when...<br>
  <a href="#req.34" style="background-color:snow">34</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser shall support the XML  Information Set. <br>
  <a href="#req.35" style="background-color:snow">35</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support pull model parsing. <br>
  <br>
  <a href="#req.37" style="background-color:snow">37</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The DOM should emit events to interested listeners 
when changes are made to the DOM <br>
  <a href="#req.38" style="background-color:snow">38</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should support 
                                        RELAX
                                . <br>
  <a href="#req.39" style="background-color:snow">39</a>
                        &nbsp;  &nbsp;
                         The parser should allow for automatic detection of 
compressed/encrypted documents. <br>
  <hr>
  <h2>Requirement Categories</h2>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Architecture</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Standards</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Features</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Memory</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Speed</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Quality</a>
  <br>
  <a href="#cat.{.}">Other</a>
  <br>
  <hr>
  <h2>Requirements by Category</h2>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Architecture</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
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  <p>
  <a name="req.3"></a><b>3.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser shall be designed so as to allow deployment of minimal 
subsets suitable for low-end, memory-constrained applications
                        <br>The build process shall create both:
  <ul>
                                        <li>a .jar file containing all standard 
components of Xerces (xerces.jar).</li>
                                        <li>a set of .jar files which together 
contain everything in xerces.jar, broken into the following components:
  <ul>
                                                        <li>xerces kernel, 
which supports the “internal APIs” and SAX support</li>
                                                        <li>DOM support</li>
                                                        <li>Validation 
support</li>
                                                        <li>other components of 
large size which can be easily factored and for which there is a significant 
audience who will benefit from not including them in a deployment.</li>
                                                </ul>
                                        </li>
                                </ul>
                        </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.2">2</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.13">13</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 26-Aug-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1<blockquote>
  <voteComment>If this type of surgery is possible, then it should help
  requirement 2 since loading unused classes could be avoided.
  </voteComment>
  </blockquote>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Laprun</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Assaf Arkin</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Edwin Goei</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2091">It should be possible to build a parser as a set 
of Jar files        so that a smaller parser can be assembled which fits the 
need of a        particular implementation. For example, in TV sets do you 
really need        validation?</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2223">Where I am now we use XML as a wire format, so 
the data volume is small,  and parsing takes place on the client (the 
customer's e-commerce  environment) and on the server. Small footprint (memory 
*and* disk)  are much more important in this context than speed or even 
validation.  </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2223.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2223">
                                        <em>Rod McChesney</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000         - 
01:32:31 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2223">... many applications could benefit 
...</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2223.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2223">
                                        <em>Rod McChesney</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000         - 
01:32:31 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1324">"small-but-performant-ambitious"  devices vs. 
"as-small-and-cheap-as-possible" devices</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1324.html";>
                                        <strong>RE: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1324">
                                        <em>Paulo Gaspar <small>(Sat Jul 15 
2000 - 15:33:49         MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1361">I [am] a proponent [of support for] 
"small-but-perfrormant-ambitious", not  "as-small-and-cheap-as-possible" 
[devices] </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1361.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1361">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Tue 
Jul 18 2000 -         00:28:02 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Standards</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.12"></a><b>12.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser shall support SAX2.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.13">13</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2243.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2243">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le         Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:49:04       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.14"></a><b>14.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser shall validate XML 1.0.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2243.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2243">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le         Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:49:04       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.15"></a><b>15.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support namespaces.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2243.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2243">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le         Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:49:04       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.18"></a><b>18.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support XML Schema. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2242.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2242">
                                        <em>Eric         Ye</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:48:42 
MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2243.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2243">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le         Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:49:04       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.19"></a><b>19.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support XPath. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2245.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2245">
                                        <em>Donald         Ball</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:57:59       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2275.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2275">
                                        <em>Brett         McLaughlin</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 16:07:32       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2284.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2284">
                                        <em>Eduardo         
Pelegri--Llopart</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:31:22 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2285.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2285">
                                        <em>Jeffrey         Rodriguez</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 19:38:42       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2320.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2320">
                                        <em>Stefano         Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 - 01:11:58       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1277.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: XRI requirements</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1277">
                                        <em>Jeffrey Rodriguez <small>(Wed Jul 
12 2000 - 09:59:50         MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.20"></a><b>20.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support XInclude. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2245">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2245.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2245">
                                        <em>Donald         Ball</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:57:59       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2271">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2271.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2271">
                                        <em>Stefano         Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 15:02:47       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2285">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2285.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2285">
                                        <em>Jeffrey         Rodriguez</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 19:38:42       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.22"></a><b>22.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support grammar access for both DTD and Schema. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.13">13</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2242.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2242">
                                        <em>Eric         Ye</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:48:42 
MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="silver">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.30"></a><b>30.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;rejected</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parse shall support SAX 1 </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2249">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2249.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2249">
                                        <em>Brett         McLaughlin</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 03:07:59       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2257">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2257.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2257">
                                        <em>N. Sean         Timm</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 05:59:47       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2271">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2271.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2271">
                                        <em>Stefano         Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 15:02:47       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="silver">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.32"></a><b>32.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;rejected</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support Java 1.1 </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2249">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2249.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2249">
                                        <em>Brett         McLaughlin</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 03:07:59       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2257">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2257.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2257">
                                        <em>N. Sean         Timm</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 05:59:47       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2271">-1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2271.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2271">
                                        <em>Stefano         Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 15:02:47       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1314">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1314.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1314">
                                        <em>Jeffrey Rodriguez <small>(Fri Jul 
14 2000 -         18:47:28 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1317">+-0</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1317.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1317">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Fri 
Jul 14 2000 -         19:22:19 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.34"></a><b>34.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support the XML  Information Set. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2298">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2298.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [Xerces2] Requirements 
list; 'Xerces2'?;         cross-posting</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2298">
                                        <em>Arnaud         Le Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 20:46:38       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2321">+1</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2321.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [Xerces2] Requirements 
list; 'Xerces2'?;         cross-posting</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2321">
                                        <em>Stefano         Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 - 01:13:00       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Features</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13a"></a><b>13a.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>Read-only, memory conservative, high 
performance DOM subset. In some  ways, this is optional, since the alternative 
is that the XSLT processor  implement it's own DOM, as it does today. But it 
would be neat and simpler  if only one DOM implementation needed to exist.  
<br>  a) Document-order indexes or API as a DOM extension. I know of few or  no 
conformant XSLT processors that can do without this.  <br>  b) [optional] 
isWhite() method as a DOM extensions (pure telling of  whether or not the text 
contains non-whitespace), for performance reasons.  <br>  c) Some sort of weak 
reference, where nodes could be released if not  referenced, and then rebuilt 
if requested. For performance and memory  footprint.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13b"></a><b>13b.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>parse-next function, with added control 
over buffer size.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13c"></a><b>13c.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>Some sort of way to tell if a SAX char 
buffer is going to be  overwritten, so data doesn't have to be copied until 
this occurs.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13d"></a><b>13d.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>Serialization support, as is currently in 
Assaf's classes.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13e"></a><b>13e.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>Schema data-type support, which will be 
needed for XSLT2, and Xalan 2.0  extensions. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.13f"></a><b>13f.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>
                                <br>Small core footprint for standalone, 
compiled stylesheet capability, for  use on small devices. This would need to 
include the Serializer. I'm not  sure if this should really be a separate 
micro-parser?   </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2296.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2296">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
19:59:46 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.16"></a><b>16.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser shall support DOM Level 2. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2243.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2243">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le         Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:49:04       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.21"></a><b>21.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support write validation of a DOM tree or 
revalidation. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2242.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2242">
                                        <em>Eric         Ye</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:48:42 
MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.28"></a><b>28.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> Xerces Native API.  The parser should provide a reasonable core API 
(fast!) upon which to layer other API's.  Examples of such API's include SAX2, 
DOM, and JDOM. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.10">10</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2207.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2207">
                                        <em>Brett         McLaughlin</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 00:28:32       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2221">JDOM is an important up and coming API that 
already has established a large and rapidly growing groundswell of support and 
in the  developer community.</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2221.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2221">
                                        <em>James         Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
01:15:59 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.31"></a><b>31.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The core parser should not directly support any tree model. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.10">10</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2154">My understanding of the design, which I think is 
good, is that the  "core" actually doesn't directly support any tree model.  
<br>                API Layer JDOM DOM SAX2  <br>               Core Layer Java 
parser code </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2154.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2154">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11         2000 - 
03:41:05 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2263.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2263">
                                        <em>Jason         Hunter</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 07:51:22       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2326.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2326">
                                        <em>Tim         Bray</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 - 02:33:14       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1169.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Design 
discussion</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1169">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Mon 
Jul 10 2000 -         08:04:29 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1179.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] Design 
discussion</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1179">
                                        <em>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <small>(Mon Jul 
10 2000         - 20:40:06 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1185.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] Design 
discussion</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1185">
                                        <em>Edwin Goei <small>(Tue Jul 11 2000 
-         00:48:20 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1211.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: ?? Design discussion - 
xerces-design-dev new         list</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1211">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le Hors <small>         (Tue 
Jul 11 2000 - 06:51:24 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1320.html";>
                                        <strong>[Xerces2] What is CORE?</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1320">
                                        <em>Ed Staub <small>(Fri Jul 14 2000 - 
23:34:45         MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1321.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [Xerces2] What is 
CORE?</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1321">
                                        <em>Brett McLaughlin <small>(Fri Jul 14 
2000 -         23:52:26 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1322.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [Xerces2] What is 
CORE?</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1322">
                                        <em>Arved Sandstrom <small>(Sat Jul 15 
2000 -         01:08:07 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.33"></a><b>33.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support loading and validating only certainrequested 
portions of a document -- a useful feature  when dealing with large xml 
databases, for example.   See the W3C <a 
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-fragment";>
                                        <em>XML Fragement Interchange</em>
                                </a> Working Draft. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2276.html";>
                                        <strong>RE: XRI requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2276">
                                        <em>James Snell</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
07:25:50 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.35"></a><b>35.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support pull model parsing. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2310.html";>
                                        <strong>Microsoft XML stuff</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2310">
                                        <em>Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul         12 2000 - 
21:46:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2323.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: Microsoft XML stuff</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2323">
                                        <em>Ted Leung</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 -         
02:08:55 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2333.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: Microsoft XML stuff</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2333">
                                        <em>Ted Leung</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 -         
06:46:09 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2335.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: Microsoft XML stuff</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2335">
                                        <em>Eric Hodges</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13 2000 -         
09:15:49 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2340.html";>
                                        <strong>RE: Microsoft XML stuff</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2340">
                                        <em>Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul         13 2000 - 
06:29:25 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.37"></a><b>37.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The DOM should emit events to interested listeners when changes are 
made to the DOM </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1201.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: ?? Design discussion - 
xerces-design-dev new         list</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1201">
                                        <em>Kelly Campbell <small>         (Tue 
Jul 11 2000 - 03:08:57 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.38"></a><b>38.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support <a href="http://www.xml.gr.jp/relax/";>
                                        <em>RELAX</em>
                                </a>. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.39"></a><b>39.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should allow for automatic detection of compressed/encrypted 
documents. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Memory</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.2"></a><b>2.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser should have a competitive memory footprint (competitive
  against the other Java based parsers out there).
  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.3">3</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 26-Aug-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1<blockquote>
  <voteComment>I assume that the comparison would be some basket of scenarios, 
so
  that being efficient with large documents could offset a slightly
  greater initial load size.</voteComment>
  </blockquote>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Laprun</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Assaf Arkin</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Edwin Goei</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2091">This means small distribution size (JAR file)    
    and small memory footprint.</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2203.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2203">
                                        <em>Scott         Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000 -         
23:42:10 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2341.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2341">
                                        <em>Stefano Mazzocchi</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13         2000 - 
01:52:43 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2345.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2345">
                                        <em>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Thu Jul 13         2000 - 
21:46:20 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="silver">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.6"></a><b>6.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;rejected</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser should have the smallest possible distribution (JAR) 
size.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.3">3</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 26-Aug-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Laprun</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Assaf Arkin</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Edwin Goei</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  </ul>
  <blockquote>
  <i>Ed:</i>The votes below were votes to remove this requirement.  Its 
concerns are addressed elsewhere.</blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2091">This means small distribution size (JAR file)    
    and small memory footprint.  </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2093">These two requirements [small memory footprint, 
small jar size -ed] are in direct conflict.   </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2093.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2093">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul 08         2000 - 
19:56:58 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Speed</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.4"></a><b>4.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser shall run well on all virutal machines and                    
shall not be optimized toward a particular virtual machine.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1299.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1299">
                                        <em>Jim Driscoll <small>(Thu Jul 13 
2000 - 18:12:19         MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1307.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1307">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Fri 
Jul 14 2000 -         06:38:44 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.23"></a><b>23.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> No significant speed penalty should be invoked for unused features, 
notably validation. When not validating, the parser should run almost as fast 
(within 5%) as a non-validating parser. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.10">10</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : 0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.24"></a><b>24.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should provide best-of-breed performance across all JIT's 
(not just Hotspot). Such performance
  shall not come at the expense of requirement 5.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.5">5</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1317">-1 (on JDK 1.1)</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1317.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: REDOM Design 
discussion.</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1317">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Fri 
Jul 14 2000 -         19:22:19 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="xdev" id="1323">Fast enough to not notice that a parse happened 
for most data (10 lines to  10K).  To expand on that, when I have Ant read it's 
data from build.xml, I  shouldn't notice. If I send a bit of form encoded XML 
data to a server, and  then get some back, it shouldn't be appreciable 
considering the connection  cost. </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-xerces-j-dev/1323.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [Xerces2] What is 
CORE?</strong>
                                </a>
                                <a name="1323">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson <small>(Sat 
Jul 15 2000 -         06:31:24 MEST)</small>
                                        </em>
                                </a>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.25"></a><b>25.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The parser should support grammar caching and precompilation. </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2242.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2242">
                                        <em>Eric         Ye</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:48:42 
MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2261.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: XRI requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2261">
                                        <em>Jeffrey Rodriguez</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12         2000 - 
07:01:23 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Quality</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.1"></a><b>1.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The code shall be maintainable and simple to read.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.5">5</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 26-Aug-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1<blockquote>
  <voteComment>+1 on intent.  But how can this be a "shall" when there is not a 
measure
  for maintainability or simplicity.  Are there specific criteria that we
  want to establish such as the Sun's Java coding conventions or something
  else from the Apache world?
  </voteComment>
  </blockquote>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Laprun</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1<blockquote>
  <voteComment>I have an easy way to measure this.. Committers should only be 
committers if
  they are prepared to read the code commits. If the code commit isn't
  readable to somebody and they throw a flag, then it probably fails the test.
  For example, my criteria on such code would be that I can understand it. If
  everybody's criteria is this, then it works.
  </voteComment>
  </blockquote>
  </li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Assaf Arkin</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Edwin Goei</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2091"> Above all, this is the primary goal        for 
any openly developed project as without the ability to read the        code, 
it's impossible for people to contribute and get involved.</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2138.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2138">
                                        <em>Edwin Goei</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul 10 2000 -         
23:18:54 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2186">[current code too complex, scares off 
users]</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2186.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2186">
                                        <em>Brett McLaughlin</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11         2000 - 
22:17:03 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2209">I don't think I am [willing to trade off some 
performance for clearly written code]. Performance is too damned important in 
the XML  world</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2209.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2209">
                                        <em>Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul         12 2000 - 
00:25:18 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2220">You're not going to get a diverse developer 
community built around code that  is too damned hard to read... </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2220.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2220">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul         12 2000 - 
01:11:58 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2311.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2311">
                                        <em>Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul         12 2000 - 
23:44:52 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.5"></a><b>5.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>Optimizations that interfere with readability,        modularity, or 
size should be shunned.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>
                        See also:
                <a href="#req.1">1</a>
                &nbsp;&nbsp;
        </p>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.7"></a><b>7.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The design of the parser should be documented, with diagrams where they 
are more expressive than text.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 26-Aug-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Chris Laprun</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Assaf Arkin</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Edwin Goei</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2104">... would benefit greatly from requirements and 
design documentation; most especially some diagrams. I find that a dozen or so 
good diagrams often do a better job of  conveying the design and, perhaps more 
importantly, the design approach or  philosophy, than written documents.  
</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2104.html";>
                                        <strong>design docs and diagrams [was 
Re: [spinnaker]         Announce]</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2104">
                                        <em>Randall J.         Parr</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sun Jul 09 2000 - 18:43:49       
  MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="silver">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.9"></a><b>9.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;rejected</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser should be upwardly compatible with Xerces.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : 0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : 0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2110">Whatever happened to making things upgrade 
compatiable. </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2110.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2110">
                                        <em>MITCHELL SOJDEHEI</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul 10         2000 - 
02:57:49 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.10"></a><b>10.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;hard<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser shall be cleanly modular.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2091.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2091">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Sat Jul         08 2000 - 
07:31:16 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2122.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2122">
                                        <em>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul 10         2000 - 
19:54:06 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2130.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2130">
                                        <em>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul 10         2000 - 
22:48:38 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2154">[star vs. pipeline]</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2154.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2154">
                                        <em>Arnaud Le Hors</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11         2000 - 
03:41:05 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  </table>
  <h3>
  <a name="#cat.{.}"></a>Other</h3>
  <table border="1" width="95%">
  <tr bgcolor="silver">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.8"></a><b>8.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;rejected</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>The parser should have the characteristics needed for it to be included 
in the JDK.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1 to remove</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2108.html";>
                                        <strong>[spinnaker] XML Hack 
Article</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2108">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>         (Mon Jul 10 2000 - 
00:47:01 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="snow">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.11"></a><b>11.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;unevaluated</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def>Development should be coordinated with xerces-c.</def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : 0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : -1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : -1 (non-committer)</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +1</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2133">I'd also like to see this be coordinated with 
the xerces-c developers ... it would be  nice to keep the two parsers in sync 
so that changes to one parser and  relatively easy to implement in the other.   
              </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2133.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2133">
                                        <em>Joe Polastre</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul 10 2000         - 
23:05:18 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2144">I disagree...</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2144.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2144">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Mon Jul         10 2000 - 
23:34:54 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2161">Java is a very different language from C++, and 
you need  different strategies.  </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2161.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2161">
                                        <em>Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul         11 2000 - 
05:25:51 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2182">...there's much to be gained by keeping the  
overall architecture and design the same between the two versions. </ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2182.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2182">
                                        <em>Andy Heninger</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul 11 2000         - 
18:59:24 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2194">[forcing deep similarity is bad]</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2194.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2194">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Tue Jul         11 2000 - 
22:39:19 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2222">...trying to find one design that fits both  
languages well will produce one design that doesn't quite fit either  language. 
</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2222.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2222">
                                        <em>Eric Hodges</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
01:23:23 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>"<ref set="gen" id="2241">Let's push for high-level designs that  can 
accommodate any OO language...</ref>"<br>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2241.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2241">
                                        <em>Arved Sandstrom</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12         2000 - 
02:22:53 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2246.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2246">
                                        <em>James Duncan Davidson</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul         12 2000 - 
02:55:07 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2248.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: [spinnaker] 
Announce</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2248">
                                        <em>Eric Hodges</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 -         
03:03:32 MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor="aquamarine">
  <td valign="top">
  <p>
  <a name="req.29"></a><b>29.</b>
  <br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;soft<br>
          &nbsp;&nbsp;approved</p>
  </td><td valign="top">
  <p>
  <b>
  <def> The project should produce testcases for both conformance and 
benchmarking.  </def>
  </b>
  </p>
  <blockquote>
  <b><i>Voted</i></b>
                 on from 07-Sept-00 to 15-Sept-00.  Votes:
        <ul>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jeffrey Rodriguez</a>
                        : 0</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Eric Ye</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Curt Arnold</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">James Duncan Davidson</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Leung</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Mikael Helbo Kjaer</a>
                        : +1</li>
  <li>
  <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Arnaud Le Hors</a>
                        : +0</li>
  </ul>
  <b><i>References</i></b>
  <br>
  <p>
  <li>
                                <a 
href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-general/2242.html";>
                                        <strong>Re: parser-next-gen goals, 
plan, and         requirements</strong>
                                </a>&nbsp;<a name="2242">
                                        <em>Eric         Ye</em>
                                </a>&nbsp;<em>(Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:48:42 
MEST)</em>
                        </li>
  </p>
  </blockquote>
  </td>
  </tr>
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