El-Kabong HTML Parser -- has m0v3d

2002-09-12 Thread Jon Travis
Aight, so since this has moved elsewhere, I thought I'd tell the people who may have initially been interested in the code. You can now grab it here: http://ekhtml.sf.net Should be handy for creating Apache filters that want to mangle content before shipping it to the browser. -- Jon

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Jon Travis
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:21:04PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:33:25PM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: Ok, since I'm not seeing any activity towards getting this integrated, I'd like to set a deadline. This would help me out, since it gives direction as to where the

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:33:25PM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: Ok, since I'm not seeing any activity towards getting this integrated, I'd like to set a deadline. This would help me out, since it gives direction as to where the project can go, as well as the ASF since political discussion

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
The ASF is apparently not about working together, since I (and everyone else who is not on the PMC list) have been entirely left out of all this conversation which is going on behind closed doors. Which closed doors are those? There has been discussion on the dev list and on the board list.

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Jon Travis
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:57:06AM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: The ASF is apparently not about working together, since I (and everyone else who is not on the PMC list) have been entirely left out of all this conversation which is going on behind closed doors. Which closed doors are

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Which closed doors are those? There has been discussion on the dev list and on the board list. Both of which are public lists that you can subscribe to. All I know of is the PMC list (which is private), but discussion on board (which is also private) is news to me. Well, I had assumed

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jon Travis wrote: The ASF is apparently not about working together, since I (and everyone else who is not on the PMC list) have been entirely left out of all this conversation which is going on behind closed doors. I suspect that's rubbish, Jon, since this is the first I've heard of this

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Scott Hess
[I am not an Apache contributor, merely a lurker, but...] On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Jon Travis wrote: These are not coercive tactics. These are processes which are beneficial to both the ASF and Covalent. I cannot continually monitor the progress of this project for eternity. I'm astonished

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Jon Travis
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:47:01AM -0700, Scott Hess wrote: [I am not an Apache contributor, merely a lurker, but...] On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Jon Travis wrote: These are not coercive tactics. These are processes which are beneficial to both the ASF and Covalent. I cannot continually

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread John K. Sterling
-Kabong -- HTML Parser snip... As I said earlier: if all you want is to contribute the code, put a compatible open source license on it and put it on a publicly accessable website, somewhere. there have been proposed uses within the core or within core modules (e.g. usertrack). To facilitate

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread Jim Jagielski
Can we settle down? A donation of code was being offered, and there was discussion within the ASF about it, but the status of those discussions weren't being folded back to the donator. Before we veer off on yet another tangent, can we address the core issue? Should the ASF accept the code

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread rbb
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Jim Jagielski wrote: Can we settle down? A donation of code was being offered, and there was discussion within the ASF about it, but the status of those discussions weren't being folded back to the donator. Before we veer off on yet another tangent, can we address the

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-10 Thread daniel
Before we veer off on yet another tangent, can we address the core issue? Should the ASF accept the code donation? I believe Greg has done a review of said code. Accept: +1, and move somewhere into apr Daniel

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-09 Thread Jon Travis
Time for another ping. It's been 2 weeks. Any word? -- Jon On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:32:16PM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: Hi all... Jon Travis here... Covalent has written a pretty keen HTML parser (called el-kabong) which we'd like to offer to the ASF for inclusion in APR-util (or

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-09 Thread Jon Travis
Ok, since I'm not seeing any activity towards getting this integrated, I'd like to set a deadline. This would help me out, since it gives direction as to where the project can go, as well as the ASF since political discussion shouldn't weigh down the process. It will just save us all a lot of

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-09 Thread Scott Hess
I'm not sure I understand what your goal is, here. The discussion seems to be +1 for including your parser somewhere in some Apache project in the future, there's just no clear concensus on where. Is there any reason you can't just release your project under the ASF license and be done with it?

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-09 Thread Jon Travis
It's possible that if it goes elsewhere that it would be under a different license. That's of course contingent on the decision from the ASF. -- Jon On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:50:18PM -0700, Scott Hess wrote: I'm not sure I understand what your goal is, here. The discussion seems to be

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-06 Thread Pier Fumagalli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are currently two possible avenues. 1) The code goes into apr-util. 2) The code goes into a sandbox project. It makes a lot of sense to have it also in XML as well, together with XERCES-C... Pier

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-03 Thread rbb
There are currently two possible avenues. 1) The code goes into apr-util. 2) The code goes into a sandbox project. The APR option is faster, but there is some misgivings about whether it belongs in apr-util. The vote was done, and it seems to be accepted, but Greg was keeping tally, so I

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-09-03 Thread Jon Travis
My comments inline: On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 02:53:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are currently two possible avenues. 1) The code goes into apr-util. 2) The code goes into a sandbox project. The APR option is faster, but there is some misgivings about whether it belongs

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-30 Thread Ben Laurie
Jim Jagielski wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will make one exception to that statement. If it lands inside of APR-util, under the XML directory, and it is made to work with the XML parser, I can accept that landing spot. As it fits in closer with our goals (I think). Jim, I can't decide

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jon Travis
Any word on this? -- Jon On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:32:16PM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: Hi all... Jon Travis here... Covalent has written a pretty keen HTML parser (called el-kabong) which we'd like to offer to the ASF for inclusion in APR-util (or whichever other umbrella it fits under.)

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: Any word on this? These things take time... and it pays off to do them well. There is absolutely no rush. Dw

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jon Travis
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:42:39PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: Any word on this? These things take time... and it pays off to do them well. There is absolutely no rush. Just wanted a word. More often than not, when something stops

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
Jon Travis wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:42:39PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: Any word on this? These things take time... and it pays off to do them well. There is absolutely no rush. Just wanted a word. More often than

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:42:39PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: Any word on this? These things take time... and it pays off to do them well. There is absolutely no rush. Just

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
Greg Stein wrote: Justin and I have both given our thumbs up. The question is now where to put the thing. A few people say APR, and few don't like that. A few say httpd, and a few don't like that. Bleh :-) I'm 100% comfy with the landing spot being in APR, as a compliment to the XML

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Aaron Bannert
Justin and I have both given our thumbs up. The question is now where to put the thing. A few people say APR, and few don't like that. A few say httpd, and a few don't like that. Bleh :-) I'm 100% comfy with the landing spot being in APR, as a compliment to the XML routines. +1 from

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread rbb
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: Justin and I have both given our thumbs up. The question is now where to put the thing. A few people say APR, and few don't like that. A few say httpd, and a few don't like that. Bleh :-) I'm 100% comfy with the landing spot being in APR,

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:24:28PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: +1 from me, I prefer APR actually. I am really uncomfortable with this going under the APR project. As things stand right now, it just doesn't fit with what we have stated our goals to be. If you want to change our stated

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:24:28PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: +1 from me, I prefer APR actually. I am really uncomfortable with this going under the APR project. As things stand right now, it just doesn't fit with what we have stated our

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jim Jagielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will make one exception to that statement. If it lands inside of APR-util, under the XML directory, and it is made to work with the XML parser, I can accept that landing spot. As it fits in closer with our goals (I think). Jim, I can't decide if this is what

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jon Travis
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:24:28PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: +1 from me, I prefer APR actually. I am really uncomfortable with this going under the APR project. As things stand right now, it just doesn't fit with what we

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Sander van Zoest
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:24:28PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: I will make one exception to that statement. If it lands inside of APR-util, under the XML directory, and it is made to work

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-29 Thread Jon Travis
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Sander van Zoest wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Jon Travis wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:24:28PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: I will make one exception to that statement. If it lands

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I was thinking mostly along the lines that under the web server project there exists the HTTP specific entities, and a HTML parser would Well - I am not sure where this APR (portability) or HTTP (hypertext protocol) focus comes from; we have umpteen parsers and processers and dommers and

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-28 Thread Jim Jagielski
At 11:16 AM +0200 8/28/02, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: I was thinking mostly along the lines that under the web server project there exists the HTTP specific entities, and a HTML parser would Well - I am not sure where this APR (portability) or HTTP (hypertext protocol) focus comes from; we

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread daniel
A couple of notes on the parser: - It is pretty lightweight and self contained - This HTML parser can be used for a multitude of applications, in Apache 2.0 filter modules. The filter processes content generated by Apache or proxied content and can rewrite URLs embedded in HTML pages: a) URL

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread Jon Travis
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:47:58AM -0700, daniel wrote: A couple of notes on the parser: - It is pretty lightweight and self contained - This HTML parser can be used for a multitude of applications, in Apache 2.0 filter modules. The filter processes content generated by Apache or proxied

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread Jon Travis
Well, if people are agreeing to this, can we get someone involved in the HTTPD project (non-Covalent affiliated) to review and approve/decline? Volunteers? -- Jon On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:22:03PM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: I didn't mean in the same tree at all! :) But, as you said, a

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread Joshua Slive
Jon Travis wrote: Well, if people are agreeing to this, can we get someone involved in the HTTPD project (non-Covalent affiliated) to review and approve/decline? Volunteers? I can't publicly post the source under the ASF license until it has been accepted (which is a chicken egg

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
I can't publicly post the source under the ASF license until it has been accepted (which is a chicken egg issue). I can, however, distribute to individuals on a restricted basis for evaluation for acceptance. There is little (except for a few upset board members) stopping Covalent of

Re: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser

2002-08-27 Thread Greg Stein
fyi, I've already emailed Jon about doing a review. I would recommend that at least one other review it, too. On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:28:18AM -0700, Jon Travis wrote: Well, if people are agreeing to this, can we get someone involved in the HTTPD project (non-Covalent affiliated) to review

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
At 12:43 PM -0700 8/27/02, Greg Stein wrote: APR is whatever we want it to be. If we start building things on You bet! Well, it depends on how far you want to take the statement whatever we want it to be :) *duck* top of APR that are functionally distinct from other projects under the

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-27 Thread john
Hi - -- Original Message -- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:14:20 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it destroy APR to fold e-k into it... I don't

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:14:20PM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: At 12:43 PM -0700 8/27/02, Greg Stein wrote: APR is whatever we want it to be. If we start building things on You bet! Well, it depends on how far you want to take the statement whatever we want it to be :) *duck* Good

Re: more on the charter (was: El-Kabong -- HTML Parser)

2002-08-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Greg Stein wrote: Regarding specifically e-k, as a html parser, it's got more a family tie, IMO, to the HTTP server project, than APR. I think it fits in better among libapreq than in the APR world, mostly because it's focused towards the web server and web server functionality.