Thank you for the response :) I was briefly involved with dbXML last year ( you can see me in the contributors list :) and I'm really charged up to get involved with Xindice. If there is a preferred way for me to submit patches, and get into the ranks, please let me know. :)
Fernando Padilla ps - I see you're involved with an XQuery Engine xqrl.com. How is that proceeding? Do you see it easily being an XMLDB service plug-in to Xindice? On Wed, 1 May 2002, Tom Bradford wrote: > On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 08:37 PM, Fernando Padilla wrote: > > I'm looking over the code and found that the Kernel class contains a > > copy > > of the org.apache.xindice.xml.TextWriter class; the comment along with > > the > > copy says: > > > > "TextWriter takes a Document, DocumentFragment, or Element and streams > > it > > as text to an output source (or a String) -- Stolen from > > org.apache.xindice.xml" > > > > I do not believe that it's being used; could anyone tell me the > > reasoning > > why the copy is there? Attached is a patch to simply remove the > > Kernel.TextWriter class from Kernel. > > This goes back to when there were two separate projects, Juggernaut and > dbXML. Juggernaut needed *a* serializer to write its configuration, but > not necessarily dbXML's, and dbXML required Juggernaut to build, so the > class was copied to allow Juggernaut to build. When the code bases > merged to form Xindice, this was no longer necessary, so that inner > class is actually an unnecessary vestige. > > -- > Tom Bradford - http://www.tbradford.org > Architect - XQRL (XQuery Engine) - http://www.xqrl.com > Apache Xindice (XML Database) - http://xml.apache.org/xindice > Labrador (Web Services Hub) - http://www.notdotnet.org/labrador > >
