Concerning the proposed TLPs I'm wondering if FOP and Batik shouldn't go together somehow. Both projects deal with XML to graphics conversions. FOP currently has 2 Batik Transcoder implementations (additional output formats for Batik: PDF, PS/EPS). So there is some kind of overlap which needs to be dealt with sooner or later. One possibility is to move the transcoders over to Batik but parts of them are FOP-specific so both projects should somehow be able to work on the common code. Moving these out of FOP still means a dependency on FOP's PDF, PostScript and font support code. These might need to be separated into "Commons" projects to be accessible to both projects and to ensure compatibility and cooperation.
Sorry if this is a bit technical and not entirely on-topic but I thought this may have to be addressed in this discussion.
No - that's some of the stuff we need to work through. Everyone needs to be comfortable with what we are doing here, and if combining some of the sub-projects makes sense for technical reasons, then lets do it!
To be fully on-topic again: When the XML project becomes a federation of projects it may make sense to create pointers to other rather XML-oriented projects which live in the Jakarta area (like Jakarta ECS, Jakarta Commons Betwixt, Digester, Jelly, JXPath, there may be others).
Absolutely. There are some real opportunities with this kind of approach that would be interesting to explore.
Cheers,
Berin
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