Hi Rajeev,

Rajeev Sampath <[email protected]> wrote on 03/23/2010 11:16:38 PM:

> 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.

Good luck with your proposal for Tomcat. From my past experience in
reviewing submissions to Apache it's a very good idea to focus on building
one or a few strong proposals rather than submitting a large number of them
that may not be so strong.>

> 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.

That's great. Looking forward to hearing from you in the future.

> Btw, I see no one in user mailing list has ever asked about Xerces
> support for DSD.  :O

Possibly an awareness thing more than anything else. If you don't know it
exists you wouldn't ask for it. I've been around a long time and I didn't
even know about it.

> Regards,
> Rajeev

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
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