Hi Dave,

That sounds good.  I'll start working on a list of what's implemented and
what's not and see what catches my eye.  That will also help me get more
familuar with the EXSLT function set.

-Corey


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM 
> [mailto:david_n_bertoni@;us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:11 PM
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> Subject: RE: EXSLT and Xalan-C++
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> Hi Corey,
> 
> Why don't you take a look at the EXSLT web site and compare what's
> implemented in Xalan-C to look for gaps?  I'm a little fuzzy on the
> details, but there are quite a few things that aren't 
> implemented yet, so
> why don't you look for something that looks interesting, and 
> we can go from
> there.  If you can come back with a potential list, we can figure out
> priorities, etc.
> 
> We should also spend some time devising basic stylesheets 
> that will test
> the EXSLT functionality.  We'll need at least a set of smoketest
> stylesheets before we start claiming we're really implementing EXSLT.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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> Dave,
> 
>   I was mainly thinking of implementation but I can also help out by
> testing.
> 
>   Just to let you know where I'm at, I have beening working 
> with Xalan-C++
> since 1.4 came out, mainly using the XalanTransformer and extension
> function
> API's for my application.
> 
>   I have skimmed over the implementations for the current 
> EXSLT functions
> but haven't really digged too deeply.  And I have also looked at the
> functions at the EXSLT website.
> 
>   For me I think it would be better at least to start off 
> with if I was
> given a specific task or tasks, so that I can be better 
> aquainted with the
> source code.
> 
> -Corey
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM
> > [mailto:david_n_bertoni@;us.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:06 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: EXSLT and Xalan-C++
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> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Corey,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback!  This bug has already been fixed in the CVS
> > repository, so you can download the latest code and get it,
> > if you want.
> >
> > Also, thanks for the offer to help!  What did you have in
> > mind?  Testing of
> > the EXSLT functionality that exists would be great and bug 
> reports are
> > always appreciated.  If you're a C++ programmer, then
> > implementation help
> > would be great.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                       Corey Tripp
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> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >   I decided to try out some of the EXSLT functions that are 
> currently
> > supported in Xalan-C++ in some of my stylesheets (
> > specifically padding and
> > align).  Using these functions helped me out by simplify my
> > stylesheets and
> > reducing execution time, both of which made me very happy.
> >
> >   To show my appreciation, I would like participate in anyway
> > that I can in
> > the EXSLT effort for Xalan-C++.
> >
> >   For starters, the namespace coded in Xalan for the string
> > functions is
> > missing the trailing 's'.
> >
> > EXSLT: http://exslt.org/strings
> > XALAN: http://exslt.org/string
> >
> > Since it advertised as an alpha implementation I wasn't 
> sure if a bug
> > report
> > was warrranted, if so I will gladly create one.
> >
> > -Corey
> >
> >
> 
> 

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