That's great news.
I am new to XML, but upon reading about Schema added control, I fell in love
(well, ok, maybe not that level of intamacy, but I'm deadset on using XML
Schema). It was also about that time that I found out that Xerces-C does not
support them. :\
My current project relies on XML in the same way that Jabber does, so I
suppose I'll start with DTD's and move over to XML Schema as soon as when
that becomes an option.
Regarding helping out, I'm feeling a bit to intimidated for that just now ;p
Probably wouldn't be the greatest of ideas, seeing as how I am not yet even
a master in the usage of Schemas, yet.
Thank you for the update. Please continue to keep us informed, as some of
our projects depend upon Schema support.
- kaoruAngel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tinny Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Schema support - Update
> 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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