Hi, I'm searching for a new job, which I would love to be still related to Libxml2/Libxslt. My current job ends on the 31 of August.
I felt hesitant to write here to this list since it's kind of OT, but someone assured me to do so: it's the best way to reach the right audience. The following is a only quick and naive description of my work related to XML, as the reasons for this mail hit me unexpectedly after coming back from vacations. I'm currently compiling more detailed information and a job application. >From the birds eye: Originally I'm coming from the Win Pascal/Delphi/Kylix world and am skilled in providing complete solutions for custom demands: the last seven years I've been designing and implementing standalone/client-server simple/complex non-web-based non-GUI/GUI(beyond RAD) applications together with the development of the data base side (InterBase, PostgreSQL, XML). Sometimes this work also included documentation (in German) and art work. I'm a fan of extreme programming and like to be involved in multiple projects at the same time. About my connection to XML: During the last 5 years I got into XML and its related technologies. My first contact with XML was an implementation of a rudimental, non-validating, XML parser, since Delphi's XML capabilities were non-fitting for me 5 years ago. Later I started to write a new propriatary Delphi DOM wrapper (around Libxml2) for our company; it was initially based on idom2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/idom2-pas). The wrapper mainly intended for one of our products: an XSL-Transformation-based application server. At the end the wrapper got its W3C's Level 1, Level 2 and some Level 3 functionality, the Load & Save module and the XPath module, a custom SOAP module based on csoap (http://csoap.sourceforge.net), a custom XSLT module and finally support for areas like validation (XML Schema, RelaxNG), XInclude, c14n-serialization, etc. I guess I won't see this baby ever again, since the whole thing is not open-source. Beside the creation of such tools for XML, my work included the implementation of apps which actually took advantage of this technology. Trivially I used XML for storage of persistent data of my apps. The more interesting field of applications were XML script processors: to write a new markup language and the processor for it. My favourite was the development of a graphical editor suite for the definition and management of XSLT-pipeline structures defined in XML. The reason for this app was our application server: the XSLT pipeline-definitions needed a GUI at some point when they became hard to read and understand. Finally there was the common every-day-work with XML as you know it: writing tools for data-mining/analysing, refactoring, writng modules for our application server (e.g. SOAP integration), testing, writing/refactoring relative simple XSLT stylesheets, etc. Finally I try to keep myself informed about all the crazy things about XML (I like to read specs). What I have to do with Libxml2/Libxslt: Libxml2/Libxslt moved into focus 4 years ago when I started to write the above mentioned Delphi DOM wrapper. The work (fixes, enhancements) on those libraries was driven by the effort of finishing the wrapper. During this time I got familiar with the code of most of the modules of Libxml2. At some point the main area of my involvement was the implementation of the W3C XML Schema processor for Libxml2. My recent work included refactoring, fixing and further development of Libxslt and some optimizations of the XPath module of Libxml2. Where am I? I'm currently living in Kiel, Germany. If you are interested, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a job application. Regards, Kasimier _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
