Hi Michael, On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Shameera, > > Welcome to the mailing list and thanks for your interest in Xerces. > > Yes, an implementation of the XMLStreamWriter, along with tests and > documentation would make for a good GSoC project. You could extend that to > also include the XMLEventWriter if you're interested and believe that's > something you'd have time to do. > Ok sure, I think It would be good first figure out how much works need to done for XMLStreamWriter implementation and then extend the proposal if i have more time. > > For the implementation I was thinking that the Xalan serializer (currently > used for DOM serialization) could be used as a base, with the > XMLStreamWriter wrapping that to handle the StAX specific processing. An > XMLEventWriter could be layered on top of the XMLStreamWriter. > Good, As i am not familiar with Xalan serializer first i will go through the DOM serialization code. After implemented XMLStreamWriter API I don't think it will be too hard to provide XMLEventWriter implementation. > > If you'd like to get a feel for what a good proposal looks like (content > and structural wise) there's a number of successful GSoC proposals from > previous years up on the Xerces Wiki [1] which are great examples. > Great, this would help me to write a good proposal. Thanks, Shameera. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/xerces/FrontPage > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Technologies and WAS Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] > > Shameera Rathnayaka <[email protected]> wrote on 06/04/2013 02:12:02 > AM: > > > Hi devs/Michael Glavassevich, > > > > I have successfully done 2012 GSOC with Apache Axis2. In that I > > wrote a StAX XMLStreamWriter/Reader implementation to provide XML > > info-set using JSON input and output streams[1]. AXIOM use that to > > get the XML infoset. > > > > Xerces has proposed similar requirement which is to implement StAX > > XMLStreamWriter[2]. I have talked abut this under particular jira > > issue. Thought it would be good talk more about how to create an > > excellent proposal for that in dev list other than ruin the jira issue > :). > > > > As i have mentioned we can provide XMLOutputFactory api which > > provide StAX XMLStreamWriter via createXMLStreamWriter(OutputStream > > stream), createXMLStreamWriter(OutputStream stream, String encoding) > > and createXMLStreamWriter(Writer stream). > > > > Above implementatinos , Documentation and unit test to cover those > > functionalities would perfectly match with GSOC scope. WDYT? > > > > Regars, > > Shameera > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5270 > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1558 > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Shameera Rathnayaka. > > > > Blog : http://shameerarathnayaka.blogspot.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Best Regards, Shameera Rathnayaka. Blog : http://shameerarathnayaka.blogspot.com/
