Thanks Dave! I remember seeing your postings some time back. I'd like to review what you have done. Some of my recent postings on Apache JIRA for the XML XALANC project still need to be committed.
I'll be glad to get you the Doxygen configuration for the current versions of Doxygen and GraphViz programs that generate (html) interactive web pages from the program sources. This is the generated API Progammer's Reference Manual. I update the API references on a Debian Linux system. I see lots of areas where the structured comments and C++ class/method descriptions do not match. This will be my next significant effort for code cleanup. I also have a standard XSLT stylesheet that converts the XALAN/XERCES StyleBook XML documentation markup into usable xhtml web pages. It does not use Java. The only change required in the XALAN StyleBook XML code is to replace the "sbk:" prefix of a non-standard URI path in SYSTEM notations. I have an earlier copy of the stylesheet posted on Apache JIRA for review and comment. The new StyleBook XSLT stylesheet should work with all standard XSLT processors that support top-level parameter definitions into the XSLT context. I am preparing a StyleBook documentation guide. I also have some scripts for creating XALAN package directories on Windows platforms which I use to distribute binary packages to developers and other XALAN users. I also use these packages to update my various Windows systems that do not have Microsoft Studio .NET installed. There are several areas I would like to pursue regarding code base upgrade. 1. Implement XPath2 capability into XALAN. I currently maintain a CurrentSVN snapshot of XALANC for Oregon State Police, and share the maintenance efforts with Unisys and other vendors of public safety information systems. Some public safety information systems vendors also use the XALAN Java product. My concentration is on the XALAN-C/C++ platform. 2. Create a large-scale XSLT processing appliance that listens on a network waiting for XML documents to transform. The processor will have a significant library of precompiled stylesheets. This may require a significant rework of dynamic memory management - something I did years ago in the design of an architecture-independent Pascal compiler with cross-compile capability on a large variety of architectures, similar to the GNU gcc compilers of today. 3. Create quality technical product documentation for the XALAN projects. I have many years of employment as a technical writer and technical editor in the writing and production of maintenance and service manuals. I hope to complete the major XALANC 1.11 documentation rework by the end of September 2011. There are some snapshots on Apache JIRA for XML-XALANC that are ready for review and comment. I'll be happy to look at your XALAN code fork at GitHub. Sincerely, Steven J. Hathaway On 6/15/2011 3:19 PM, David Carver wrote: > I'd be interested in helping you guys out. I already have a future > fork of Xalan code in GitHub. > > https://github.com/kingargyle/bilrost > > I've got a branch where I've mavenized the build, which makes it a bit > simplier to get started. Not much work has happened. I'm also one of > the committers for the Psychopath Processor as well. > > Unfortunately, I don't think there is much hope for active development > of Xalan at Apache for the foreseeable future. Feel free to contact me > to discuss more. > > > Dave > > > On 06/14/2011 11:10 PM, Xun Long Gui wrote: >> Hi Bert, >> >> Due to low activity in Xalan community (In fact, we discussed the >> project in Xalan-dev mail list before, but it seems that not much >> developers are interested in it ), i discuss this project with the >> student directly, and plan to host this project in Google Code web >> site ( As I can not access to Xalan's SVN workspace :-(, may be >> Google Code is a good choice for the GSoC project ). I know that >> Xalan's lack of active PMC members, but i am not a Xalan PMC member, >> i want to do more things for this project, but i do not know how. If >> we can do some thing to keep Xalan's position, i am looking forward >> for it. >> >> 2011/6/14 Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacre...@apache.org >> <mailto:bdelacre...@apache.org>> >> >> Hi Xun Long Gui , >> >> It seems like you are the mentor for this GSoC project about Xalan: >> >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/aguai/9003 >> >> I haven't seen this discussed on the Xalan dev list, are your >> discussions about this happening on another Apache list? >> >> The Xalan project is currently at risk of being moved to >> attic.apache.org <http://attic.apache.org> due to lack of active >> PMC members [1], so if >> something's happening it would be good to bring the discussion where >> it belongs, that is on the xalan-dev@xml.apache.org >> <mailto:xalan-dev@xml.apache.org> list, to foster >> community involvement. >> >> Thanks for clarifying, >> -Bertrand >> >> [1] http://s.apache.org/Bug >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards >> >> Gui Xun Long (桂训龙) >
