I am writing with a
question that all of my associates have faced when trying to use xerces together
with xalan. Why aren't the source trees more closely related? It
takes hours of time and a lot of energy to get Xalan to compile and link.
After two days of focusing on it I finally called it a day. It was quite a
shock to learn I spent the first day wasting my time trying to link xalan with
the current version of xerces which I've had on my development system for
several days.
Not to be all
negative I was quite pleased with how easily it set up on my windows
workstation. Why haven't you used automake and autoconf to their
fullest? I've installed a lot of applications on our Sun E450 with almost
no problems.
I also think that
Xalan and Xerces are the best tools available in the open source market. I
found the api easy to use and very functional. Unfortunately, because of
the difficulty in setting up Xalan, I'm going to have to find another tool
because my company has 3 Dec-Alphas and 4 Solaris systems with a variety of
configurations. I can't spend 2-3 days on each machine trying to set up a
third party library. It's ridiculous.
If there is any way
I can help other than complaining, please let me know. I would be happy to
offer some of my time to help with creating a more robust package. I am an
experienced C, C++, Java programmer with 4years of Computer Science under my
belt and 6 years of industry experience working for various
internet/publishing companies.
Cliff Kilpatrick, Software Engineer
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
7200 Wisconsin
Ave, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD, 20814
ph: 301.961.6787
em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
