Hi Michael, On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Rajeev, > > Rajeev Sampath <[email protected]> wrote on 03/22/2010 12:14:04 PM: > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > >> Hi Rajeev, > >> > >> Only one of the projects from last year's idea list was completed > >> for GSoC 2009. All of the others are still available and have posted > >> to JIRA as potential ideas for this year. I just mentioned a few > >> other possibilities on the mailing list [1]. > > > > Thanks Michael for your reply. I had a serious look at the mail > > archives only after I posted the previous mail and noticed that > > there have been a few students already working on some of the ideas. > > I'll try to work on something avoiding overlappings. > > As I mentioned to Udayanga you don't have to limit yourself to the project > ideas we've posted in JIRA so far. There are other areas in need of help and > just suggested a few more. > Thanks for pointing out the possibilities, however for this GSoC, I'm interested in another idea on Apache Tomcat as well, and thought I'd rather concentrate on that as a GSoC project. I've worked with XML stuff for some time now, so familiar with it and also have interest in working on parsers (I haven't dealt enough with Xerces internals yet). So I thought about working on one or a few of those remaining ideas later outside GSoC since Xerces/J seems to be interesting for me. Btw, I see no one in user mailing list has ever asked about Xerces support for DSD. :O Regards, Rajeev > > >> I have to admit I haven't heard of DSD before so can't really > >> comment on it. On a quick glance of the spec it looks like another > >> schema language though not immediately obvious to me how it > >> differentiates itself from the other existing ones. > > > > Yes. It is another schema language. You can find a quick comparison > > of DSD with other schema languages here [1] [2]. > > Given its extremely low popularity, there's no wonder that you > > haven't heard of it. But on the other hand, one reason for its low > > popularity can be that almost no one has been seriously trying to > > implement it despite its advantages (it's been there for several > > years - almost for a decade I think). That's why I (and also > > Udayanga) wanted to know whether Xerces community has any plans to > > implement it. > > > > [1] > > http://www.brics.dk/~amoeller/XML/schemas/dsd-overview.html<http://www.brics.dk/%7Eamoeller/XML/schemas/dsd-overview.html> > > [2] http://www.brics.dk/DSD/ > > > > > > Thanks. > > Rajeev > > Thanks. > > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] >
