Hi Jukka, > > We can and should work together with the parser projects to address > the requirements we see. That's a much better alternative than forking > parts of those projects inside Tika.
+1. This was the decision, as I mentioned, after a number of years of seeing parser explosion and forking in Nutch. The idea is, all of these communities do have their own expertise and code bases. Tika is like the common driver (or "middleware") to each. Cheers, Chris > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Disclaimer: The opinions presented within are my own and do not reflect those of either NASA, JPL, or the California Institute of Technology.