The appropriate place to discuss xml-commons is on [EMAIL PROTECTED] We do have a web page at http://xml.apache.org/commons although it's a little thin so far.
xml-commons is explicitly a bit 'quieter' than jakarta-commons, although lately it's been a bit *too* quiet (not that I have extra time for the next 2 weeks to help myself, with a friend's wedding to toast at). The charter in xml-commons was to be a common repository for xml-based or -oriented code that other xml.apache.org projects needed. I'm thinking this may soon morph a bit into having two halves of xml-commons: -a- The external directory will be a common place to get SAX/DOM/JAXP interfaces, as it does now. Several committers are currently trying to get the time to neaten this up and make improvments - stay tuned. This area will probably always be pretty tightly controlled since there are some important versioning and packaging questions here. -b- I'd like to see the rest of xml-commons become a little bit more open. The doctypechanger sounds like a pretty good addition: it's small, focused, specifically for XML processing, and isn't a replacement for existing functionality (i.e. it doesn't compete with xerces/xalan/others, it complements their use in different environments). It's something to help tie together our existing XML tools for custom environments. The serializer and such I haven't looked at enough yet. But I'd be more inclined to get the Xerces and/or Xalan communities to agree on a common org.apache.xml.serializer package and migrate one of those to xml-commons, since we already have fully-featured serializers in those projects. (Oh, this points out one of my biases: I'd prefer tools that strictly follow standards or that do small, focused tasks outside of the standards. Thus I'd be less inclined to do an xml project that doesn't support namespaces, for example. It might be good for just-getting-it-done projects, but I'd rather focus on more robust and complete ones. Or on small tools that do things that aren't spec'd in standards, but are common programming tasks directly related to using the standards) And in the short term, the jakarta-commons project is a good place to look for a temporary home for stuff like this. They host all sorts of useful little java bits. ===== - Shane <eof .sig="'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a very scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less'" "Oohayu oyod?!"=gis. /> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
