I have just updated the Apache Xerces-C web site:
http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/schema.html. Please check it out.
Thanks!
Tinny
Tinny Ng wrote:
> Just wanna to give you an update on our Schema Development progress.
> Khaled
> Noaman, Pei Yong Zhang, and I have been working hard in the past
> couple of
> months to port the Schema Support in Xerces-J to Xerces-C, and
> everything is
> still on track right now. We have finished the plumbing fundamental
> work (like
> Exception handling, Schema messaging, Content model, Schema element
> decl/attribute decl ... etc.), and are now moving on to Schema
> specific items:
>
> 1. Schema Validator
> 2. Datatype Validator
> 3. Traverse Schema
>
> As indicated in my note earlier, we will first have a Schema subset
> release in
> the summer, and then a full PR release in the Fall. This Schema
> subset release
> will have the following minimal Schema Support:
>
> 1. Partial Simple Type Support (Yes: atomic simple type. No: union
> and list)
> 2. Partial Complex Type Support (Yes: choice, sequence. No: group,
> all)
> 3. Element and Attribute Declaration (No: any/anyAttribute)
> 4. Substitution groups
> 5. Subset of pre-defined Datatypes:
> Primitive datatypes: string, boolean, decimal, binary
> Derived datatypes: CDATA, integer
>
> Anything not mentioned above will be available in the PR release
> later.
>
> The subset code should be ready by the end of May. And then allocate
> a month
> for test, a stable Xerces release with Schema subset support should be
> built by
> the end of June or so. And then we will carry on to implement the
> rest for the
> full PR release during the second half of this year.
>
> If anyone would like to volunteer to help out with the schema port,
> that would
> be great and please let us know.
>
> Based on numerous requests, I will post the above information in the
> Apache
> Xerces-C web site later this week.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Tinny Ng
> XML Parsers Development
> IBM Toronto Laboratory, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > We finally come up with a more detail plan for this Schema Support.
> Khaled
> > Noaman, Pei Yong Zhang and I have started to work on the port of
> schema
> > support from Xerces-J to Xerces-C. Basically we will divide this
> work into
> > 3 sessions:
> >
> > 1. Base infra-structure - fundamental architectural changes in
> Parser,
> > Scanner, ContentModel, and XMLValidator
> > 2. Schema subset - minimal Schema Support with restrictions to get
> people
> > started
> > 3. Full Schema Support (at CR level) as in Xerces-J
> >
> > It takes rougly two months for the base infra-structure. And the
> Schema
> > Subset should be available sometime in April or May (depends on how
> far we
> > want to go in test). And the Full Schema Support should be
> available one
> > to two months afterwards. Please note that the dates are tentative
> and
> > subject to change.
> >
> > If anyone would like to volunteer to help out with the schema port,
> that
> > would be great and please let us know.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tinny Ng
> > XML Parsers Development
> > IBM Toronto Laboratory, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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