Hey David,
Sorry its taken a while to respond - I missed the mail. I will see if I
can dig out some of the folks who work with the W3C and get some advice. Does
anyone on the list have any experience with this?
Cheers,
Gareth
On 3 Jul 2011, at 15:43, David Carver wrote:
> I'm glad to see that Xalan is starting a reboot. One thing I think the PMC
> is going to need to investigate with the Apache Software Foundation is
> obtaining access to the W3C XSLT 2.x/3.x test suite. Unfortunately this is
> not publicly available like the W3C Test Suite for XQuery is.
>
> Re-creating the XSLT 2.x test suite will be a mamoth undertaking, and is one
> of the big things that I think holds back their being other XSLT 2.x
> processors in the open source world. I think getting access to this
> existing test suite even if that test suite can't be made publicly available,
> is crucial in moving things forward on the XSLT 2 and 3 front.
>
> Dave
>
> On 07/01/2011 05:20 AM, Gareth Reakes wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Its great to see there is so much support for the project still! I am
>> very hopeful we can all make it a success.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gareth
>>
>>
>> On 1 Jul 2011, at 09:27, Steve Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>> Xalan PMC, you have my support!
>>>
>>> Committee Information:
>>>
>>> There are still significant JIRA issues that need minor work or need to be
>>> closed relating to Xalan-C version 1.11. As I work on the product
>>> documentation, I will also try to address the outstanding JIRA issues.
>>> There are a few that are significant patches that need to be made to the
>>> Xalan-C trunk. I'll research the critical issues and report back to this
>>> list.
>>>
>>> If the review process is not stalled, I should have a completed Xalan-C/C++
>>> version 1.11 user guide ready in September 2011. The bulk of the work
>>> should be completed sometime in August 2011.
>>>
>>> Again, I give thanks to the reformed Xalan PMC. There are some
>>> infrastructure details that need to be handled in order to publish a new
>>> release of Xalan-C.
>>>
>>> As for managing the xalan/c repository, I have some items for discussion.
>>>
>>> The xalan/c/<trunk> currently serves numerous customers that use the
>>> Xalan-C v.1.11 snapshots in their products. The<trunk> should be
>>> maintained for this support until Xalan-C v1.11 is officially released as a
>>> product and posted on the ASF mirrors.
>>>
>>> Xalan-C Version 2 should be on an xalan/c/<branch> for development until
>>> after Xalan-C v1.11 is released. When Xalan-C v2.0 has some usability and
>>> version 1 has no further development, then Version 2 can be moved to
>>> the<trunk> and patches to Version 1 can be done in a<branch>.
>>>
>>>
>>> Binary Package Builds:
>>>
>>> I can create binary packages builds for Microsoft VS-2003, 2005, 2008, and
>>> possibly 2010. I might even be able to restore old Microsoft MSDN software
>>> to create a binary package for Visual Studio (VS6).
>>>
>>> I can create binary packages on Debian Linux. I don't have Red Hat package
>>> management tools. One of my co-workers has BSD unix on several virtual
>>> machines.
>>>
>>> I have vendors that maintain software on IBM Z-OS mainframes, AIX on
>>> RS-6000 clusters, IBM AS400, and Linux on IBM mainframes. I don't know of
>>> their programming staff resources that they might contribute to the effort.
>>>
>>> I have a vendor that maintain system software for HP-UX on the HP RISC
>>> fault-tolerant clusters.
>>>
>>> I know of vendors that maintain software on Solaris systems, but am unclear
>>> on their programming skills. Many years ago I created and maintained
>>> software using the Solaris package management tools.
>>>
>>> Any committers willing to provide binary packages for evaluation would be
>>> welcome to participate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Steven J. Hathaway
>>>
>>> P.S.
>>> A Research Project: I am trying to design a high-performance engine that
>>> operates as a stand-alone XML document transformation appliance. A library
>>> of stylesheets are to be cached in a compiled state. The incoming
>>> connection would supply an XML document and identify a stylesheet for
>>> transformation. The outgoing communications would be the transformed
>>> document or indicate a set of errors found in the transformation. I am
>>> still researching the architecture requirements and the capabilities of
>>> existing development efforts.
>>>
>>> Some of my future transformation requirements can be massive. Several
>>> families of XML schemas define 86,000 to 180,000 distinct elements
>>> catalogued into numerous namespaces. I see in the near future that one
>>> XML family in the US Dept. of Justice will embrace over 400,000 cataloged
>>> elements in a family of XML schema definitions. This also requires massive
>>> stylesheet capability to accommodate the related transformations. In such
>>> a system, I see the need to be able to perform 5-40 transformations per
>>> second (with parallel operations).
>>>
>>> ========================
>>>
>>> Bertrand Wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Xalan community,
>>>>> I'm pleased to announce that the ASF board has voted for re-establish
>>>>> the Xalan PMC as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> * David Bertoni (dbertoni, PMC chair)
>>>>> * Gareth Reakes (gareth)
>>>>> * Tim Williams (twilliams)
>>>>> * Sanjiva Weerawarana (sanjiva)
>>>>> * Gary D. Gregory (ggregory)
>>>>> * Michael Glavassevich (mrglavas)
>>>>> * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz)
>>>>>
>>>>> Existing PMC members (apart from David who was the only active one
>>>>> left) have been discharged from their PMC responsibilities. If any of
>>>>> those folks want to become active again they're more than welcome, of
>>>>> course.
>>> = =
>>>
>>>>> Also, I think a special report should be prepared for the next board
>>>>> meeting, on July 20th, to get back on track with those reports.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> -Bertrand
>>>>>
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