Hi Dave,

  I'll get started with that and let you know if I have any difficulties.
Thanks for the test case pointers.

-Corey



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> From: David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM 
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> Subject: RE: EXSLT and Xalan-C++
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> Hi Corey,
> 
> Yes, the ability to create XML nodes from extension functions is being
> developed by someone else.  I've haven't heard back from that 
> person in a
> while, so I don't know what the state of that is.  You might 
> want to start
> on the encode-uri and decode-uri functions, then move on to 
> replace.  By
> the time you're finished, the other functionality may be integrated.
> 
> As far as the test cases are concerned -- I'm not sure how 
> the Java tests
> are being run these days.  We share many of the same test 
> directories, but
> they've done a lot of work on their testing, so I'm not sure 
> how many new
> tests they use that we don't.  In addition, we do conformance 
> testing on
> Windows with a new executable that hasn't yet been ported to 
> any of the
> Unix platforms.  On Unix, we still use the old java test 
> harness, which can
> be adapted through a configuration file to run any pair of 
> directories.  In
> any case, we should be able to share many stylesheets, 
> although those that
> do testing of Java extension functions will not work.
> 
> Take a look at xml-xalan/test/tests/conf and 
> xml-xalan/test/tests/conf-gold
> as an example of a pair of directories.
> 
> Dave
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> Hi Dave,
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>    I had a chance to look over the EXSLT website and here's 
> what I found.
> Of the modules that have implementations (common, math, sets, 
> and strings)
> the strings module is the only one that is missing some 
> functions.  Then
> there are three modules that do not have any implementations at all
> (dates-and-times, dynamic, and regular-expressions).
> 
>    To me I think it would be nice to finish off the strings 
> module and then
> move on to the others.  The remaining strings functions are 
> encode-uri,
> decode-uri, tokenize, split, and replace.  I think that 
> replace will be the
> hardest out of this group, the rest seem pretty straigh 
> forward.  The split
> and tokenize functions need to return xml nodes of the tokens 
> found, my
> understanding is that this functionality is being developed, is that
> correct?
> 
>    As far as the test cases, does Xalan-C++ use the same smoketest
> stylesheets that Morris said were in the test/tests/extensions/library
> directory or is there another directory?  I would like to see 
> some existing
> examples so that I can get the structure and layout correct.
> 
> -Corey
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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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