Hi Rajeev, Rajeev Sampath <[email protected]> wrote on 03/22/2010 12:14:04 PM:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: >> Hi Rajeev, >> >> Only one of the projects from last year's idea list was completed >> for GSoC 2009. All of the others are still available and have posted >> to JIRA as potential ideas for this year. I just mentioned a few >> other possibilities on the mailing list [1]. >> > Thanks Michael for your reply. I had a serious look at the mail > archives only after I posted the previous mail and noticed that > there have been a few students already working on some of the ideas. > I'll try to work on something avoiding overlappings. As I mentioned to Udayanga you don't have to limit yourself to the project ideas we've posted in JIRA so far. There are other areas in need of help and just suggested a few more. >> I have to admit I haven't heard of DSD before so can't really >> comment on it. On a quick glance of the spec it looks like another >> schema language though not immediately obvious to me how it >> differentiates itself from the other existing ones. >. > Yes. It is another schema language. You can find a quick comparison > of DSD with other schema languages here [1] [2]. > Given its extremely low popularity, there's no wonder that you > haven't heard of it. But on the other hand, one reason for its low > popularity can be that almost no one has been seriously trying to > implement it despite its advantages (it's been there for several > years - almost for a decade I think). That's why I (and also > Udayanga) wanted to know whether Xerces community has any plans to > implement it. > > [1] http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/schemas/dsd-overview.html > [2] http://www.brics.dk/DSD/ > > > Thanks. > Rajeev Thanks.> Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
