I'm glad to see that Xalan is starting a reboot. One thing I think the
PMC is going to need to investigate with the Apache Software Foundation
is obtaining access to the W3C XSLT 2.x/3.x test suite. Unfortunately
this is not publicly available like the W3C Test Suite for XQuery is.
Re-creating the XSLT 2.x test suite will be a mamoth undertaking, and is
one of the big things that I think holds back their being other XSLT 2.x
processors in the open source world. I think getting access to this
existing test suite even if that test suite can't be made publicly
available, is crucial in moving things forward on the XSLT 2 and 3 front.
Dave
On 07/01/2011 05:20 AM, Gareth Reakes wrote:
Hi Steven,
Its great to see there is so much support for the project still! I am
very hopeful we can all make it a success.
Cheers,
Gareth
On 1 Jul 2011, at 09:27, Steve Hathaway wrote:
Xalan PMC, you have my support!
Committee Information:
There are still significant JIRA issues that need minor work or need to be
closed relating to Xalan-C version 1.11. As I work on the product
documentation, I will also try to address the outstanding JIRA issues. There
are a few that are significant patches that need to be made to the Xalan-C
trunk. I'll research the critical issues and report back to this list.
If the review process is not stalled, I should have a completed Xalan-C/C++
version 1.11 user guide ready in September 2011. The bulk of the work should
be completed sometime in August 2011.
Again, I give thanks to the reformed Xalan PMC. There are some infrastructure
details that need to be handled in order to publish a new release of Xalan-C.
As for managing the xalan/c repository, I have some items for discussion.
The xalan/c/<trunk> currently serves numerous customers that use the Xalan-C v.1.11
snapshots in their products. The<trunk> should be maintained for this support until
Xalan-C v1.11 is officially released as a product and posted on the ASF mirrors.
Xalan-C Version 2 should be on an xalan/c/<branch> for development until after Xalan-C
v1.11 is released. When Xalan-C v2.0 has some usability and version 1 has no further
development, then Version 2 can be moved to the<trunk> and patches to Version 1 can be
done in a<branch>.
Binary Package Builds:
I can create binary packages builds for Microsoft VS-2003, 2005, 2008, and
possibly 2010. I might even be able to restore old Microsoft MSDN software to
create a binary package for Visual Studio (VS6).
I can create binary packages on Debian Linux. I don't have Red Hat package
management tools. One of my co-workers has BSD unix on several virtual
machines.
I have vendors that maintain software on IBM Z-OS mainframes, AIX on RS-6000
clusters, IBM AS400, and Linux on IBM mainframes. I don't know of their
programming staff resources that they might contribute to the effort.
I have a vendor that maintain system software for HP-UX on the HP RISC
fault-tolerant clusters.
I know of vendors that maintain software on Solaris systems, but am unclear on
their programming skills. Many years ago I created and maintained software
using the Solaris package management tools.
Any committers willing to provide binary packages for evaluation would be
welcome to participate.
Sincerely,
Steven J. Hathaway
P.S.
A Research Project: I am trying to design a high-performance engine that
operates as a stand-alone XML document transformation appliance. A library of
stylesheets are to be cached in a compiled state. The incoming connection
would supply an XML document and identify a stylesheet for transformation. The
outgoing communications would be the transformed document or indicate a set of
errors found in the transformation. I am still researching the architecture
requirements and the capabilities of existing development efforts.
Some of my future transformation requirements can be massive. Several families
of XML schemas define 86,000 to 180,000 distinct elements catalogued into
numerous namespaces. I see in the near future that one XML family in the US
Dept. of Justice will embrace over 400,000 cataloged elements in a family of
XML schema definitions. This also requires massive stylesheet capability to
accommodate the related transformations. In such a system, I see the need to
be able to perform 5-40 transformations per second (with parallel operations).
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Bertrand Wrote:
Hi Xalan community,
I'm pleased to announce that the ASF board has voted for re-establish
the Xalan PMC as follows:
* David Bertoni (dbertoni, PMC chair)
* Gareth Reakes (gareth)
* Tim Williams (twilliams)
* Sanjiva Weerawarana (sanjiva)
* Gary D. Gregory (ggregory)
* Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas)
* Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz)
Existing PMC members (apart from David who was the only active one
left) have been discharged from their PMC responsibilities. If any of
those folks want to become active again they're more than welcome, of
course.
= =
Also, I think a special report should be prepared for the next board
meeting, on July 20th, to get back on track with those reports.
Thanks,
-Bertrand
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