Joseph Kesselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2006 09:08:27 AM:
> I haven't reviewed it myself in aeons, so I have no opinion beyond "Yup, > good question." But I definitely approve of shared code, as long as there > aren't irreconcilable conflicts in demands upon it. If both the Xalan and > Xerces teams are convinced of that, I'd say go for it. Several of the active Xerces and Xalan developers at the time (including myself) felt this was the right direction. I still believe it is. Producing the stand-alone serializer.jar [1] in Xalan 2.7.0 was an important first step to making it possible. > One architectural question: If it's to be shared, should it no longer be > "the Xalan serializer" -- ie, one that lives in the Xalan project -- but > instead be moved out to xml-commons? xml-commons has been struggling to keep afloat as a project, particularly since the majority of projects which were once part of the Apache XML Project moved to top-level status. xml-commons might soon get moved into another TLP where it would hopefully fare better and receive more oversight. Even if xml-commons were in a healthier state I'm not sure there's enough of a community around the serializer code to justify moving it out of Xalan. > Hopefully unnecessary reminder: The fact that code lives in another Apache > project doesn't make maintaining/enhancing it "someone else's problem"; > projects with dependencies also accept responsibility to keep those > supporting projects healthy. The goal here should be to _share_ effort and > responsibility, not transfer it! That is the goal. > ______________________________________ > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish > (http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/whatsnew.html Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
