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[team4xt] Re: What would you like to do 4xt ?
Subject: [team4xt] Re: What would you like to do 4xt ?
User: Website From: Paul Tchistopolskii (pault12@pacbell.net)
Date: 25/05/2000 - 23:43
Hi Eric.
> There seems to be a consensus that :
>
> 1) XT should be maintained and improved
I'm writing kinda XSL driven application server and there is simply
no way for me to get rid of XT, because XT is the fastest java
implementation.
I can not drop Java and I also need speed ( for that reason I now
also have to get deeper than SAX events - down no nodeset ;-)
I simply have no alternative to XT.
> 2) The first most important thing is to make it 100% conformant
Even for my tasks this "100%" is not the requirment, but I think that if we
want to keep the XT project 'alive' for a 'long time' this is unavoidable.
> 3) The next most important is to follow the TRaX initiative
Maybe - but not to me.
> 4) SAX2
>
> There have not been any feedback about SAX2 support, and I propose to
> add it as #4.
Not the issue to me at all.
> 5) Interoperability
Don't understand this.
> I personally think that we should also develop more "handlers" for XT,
> facilitating a usage as a "secret weapon" within many different
> contexts.
This I'l make priority number 2 ( if "100% conformance" is number 1 ).
The more extensions we'l get - the better.
> The integration of Java Tidy would allow to read HTML files (though Tidy
> is not always very flexible) and to check (X)HTML output.
Nice idea.
> 6) Documentation
>
> Or should it be 0) ?
I think after we'l collect sufficient number of hacks ( documenting the XT internal
dataflow )
that will be easeir for us to understand what documentation do we realy need.
> Next steps:
> ----------
>
> The support from James at least as a guide would be invaluable, however,
> we don't know what are his plans.
Sure. Just one brief ( even not accurate ) statement from James what classes
to touch to implement this and that could save days of work. But I think it will
be better if we'l assume that there will be no messages from James ever.
> I think we should agree on a plan (around the above summary) and try to
> build the development team to implement it.
I think that we should try to make the site itself as good as it is possible so that
it will have very clear structure and we should provide a loud feedback to the
letters similiar to attached one. ( I assume Eric - you will anser to that message
in XSL-list, right ? )
> Do you agree with this idea ?
I think that we should
promote the site,
clean up the site,
structurise it,
get some procedures
become sure that site is always up ;-) ,
publish our hacks / benchmarks, materials articles e t.c. e t.c.
I think as a result of my activity mentioned above I will
provide some hacks to XT, but not tomorrow.
The last but not the least - for example, because I still don't understand
how you are exchanging the FAQ materials with Dave, I don't understand
how and why anything should be done with rendering, this sometimes
stops me from helping you with the site itself.
What I mean to say that the site itself is also some 'project' and if you not
'publish' the 'dataflows' and 'procedures' 'how to help' e t.c. - the 'project' will
not gonna work as efficient as you may like. ;-)
Also, I don't expect *any* project of this kind to develop fast.
This is good we have some place devoted to XT.
This is good that we can collect hacks around XT.
This is good we can discuss some XT-related things
( even I *still* think that having one and only one mailing list devoted to XT and XT.org
site
could result in much better situation than we have now , because the
group looks 'closed' to the society. For a couple of reasons ).
Eric - don't get frustrated please ;-). Free stuff develops very slowly -
but it dies also slowly ;-)
Rgds.Paul.
----- Original Message -----
From: Khun Yee Fung <KFung@extend.com>
To: <XSL-List@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: I have the diff files to modify XT to output HDML
> I made probably the minimal changes necessary to XT to make it output HDML.
> If you are looking for a quick-and-dirty way to get XT to output HDML, send
> me an email and I will send you the two tiny diff files.
>
> Regards,
> Khun Yee
>
>
> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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