1) The release information appears to have hit a brick wall last autumn/fall (2004-9-29 to be precise). That is the last date on the Release info page. Things were going strong with many updates per day until then, then nothing. Since I monitor this mailing list, I know that's not true, but to someone coming fresh to the site, that is the impression.
2) As some recent posts on this list have indicated, the method of implementing on a standard (?!) windows platform is not clear from the apache xml site. I guess this is where most of the new users are likely to come from. The installation for the Windows platform is flagged as Windows NT/2000, long gone now. The impression this gives is wrong. Surely most people are Win XP for development. Although most developers probably will know about the command line, it seems very retro in this age of GUIs. If xml apache wants to appeal to the largest population of installed systems, I would expect a simple click to download and instal some working samples for Win XP users.
All of the above is meant as a helpful comment, not a flame. I prefer to work on Macintosh, and I started in computing when punched tape was the norm. I just had to purchase and use a WinXP system for a recent development which needed XML, and I now want to broaden things out.
I feel that there has been a renewed surge of enthusiasm and interest in apache xml, and the impending move to version 3 will signal that the implementation is much more rounded and useable. There are postings to this list nowadays on usage issues rather than just bug fixes, and that's a good sign.
D ^ D Andrew E Wilson < A > AV technology consultant (UK) D v D Tel +44 7710 727636
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