Question...

[Nicholas Oddson <no...@opentext.com>]

Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this and 
couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO.

How does this development effort work?

a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the committers or PMC?
b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the 
specific tasks?
c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to Xerces 
functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it?

I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the 
detail of the process.

Again apologies, I am just eager to help out.

- Nick
--
Nicholas Oddson
Software Developer
Open Text Corporation

Re: Question...

[Ted Leung <tw...@sauria.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Oddson" <no...@opentext.com>
To: <xe...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: Question...


> Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this and
> couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO.
>
> How does this development effort work?
>
> a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the committers or
PMC?

As Mike mentioned,  neither the PMC nor the committers has the authority to
assign
work to project members.   The committers are responsible for ensuring that
changes
are okay before they get committed to CVS.

> b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the
> specific tasks?

This happens.

> c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to Xerces
> functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it?

This also happens.

> I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the
> detail of the process.
>
> Again apologies, I am just eager to help out.
>

We're eager to have people help out.   I'll repost the STATUS file for the
Java project (Andy can do the same for C++) to give you an idea of things
that we know we need to do.  If you want to add more to that feel free.
The STATUS file in CVS is supposed to represent the canonical task list.
Part of the reason it's ambiguous how the process works is that the process
can
work in many ways.

Let us know how you want to help or what feature you want to add and we
can go from there.

Ted

Re: Question...

[Ted Leung <tw...@sauria.com>]

Ben,

The current datatype validator design should allow you to write your own
data type validator and register it into the schem validator.  If you want
to
take a look, check out org.apache.xerces.validators.datatypes and
org.apache.xerces.validators.schema.

Ted
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Bertola" <bb...@promedix.com>
To: <xe...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Question...


> I've been on this list for a couple of weeks now just kind of trying to
get a feel
> for everything and would also be interested in helping out where possible.
I have
> to admit that I'm not too advanced in XML right now, but am using it quite
a bit in
> some projects I have right now.  One thing that I would like most is to
work on the
> XML Schema.  I know that we have support right now for some data types,
but I would
> like to write a mechanism to allow for people to define their own data
types.  They
> would have to provide adapters for their own data type validation but I
think it
> would be very usuable.  Especially if we could define a sytax where they
can pass
> different parameters to the type validation classes.   I would be
primarily
> interested in doing this in Java, since I don't know much about C, but I
think that
> this would be an extremely usefull feature, especially when combined with
XSL etc.
>     An example of where this might be usefull is in the following.
Suppose that
> you want to use an XSL stylesheet to be able to write out a flat text file
with
> fixed field lengths to be imported into a suppliers Ordering System.  If
you used a
> Schema to validate the XML, you could write a FixedLengthValidator that
takes in the
> Strinng from the content of your XML element, and a parameter, which in
this case
> could be a number,  and your FixedLengthValidator could check how long it
actually
> is and provide a response as to whether this if a good FixedLength.
>     What does everyone think of this kind of an addition?  Would it be too
difficult
> to accomplish and if it's something I could start working on where in the
code
> should I start to look?  I haven't looked at the source tree much to date,
so any
> pointers would be appreciated,
> Ben Bertola
>
>
> Mike Pogue wrote:
>
> > There are a bunch of people working on Xerces-J and C right now.  Most
> > of them are focusing on:
> >         solidifying the core (e.g. namespaces)
> >         completing DOM Level 2 (e.g ranges)
> >         XML Schema (e.g. updating to the latest draft spec)
> >         bugs (plenty of these to go around)
> >         performance/memory consumption (we can always do better!)
> >         porting to additional platforms (we have a lot, but we're
getting new
> >                 contributions in the areas of FreeBSD, Irix, et.al)
> >
> > If you have an idea, I'd suggest that you post it to the list, and see
> > if people are interested!  The PMC doesn't assign work.  It's usually
> > that somebody volunteers to do something, and nobody else objects (or
> > they do, and a discussion takes place about what the right thing to do
> > is).
> >
> > We'd love to have you help out!  What kind of things are you interested
> > in?  Java? C++? Specific platforms?  Specific features? Specific
> > applications like publishing?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Nicholas Oddson wrote:
> > >
> > > Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this
and
> > > couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO.
> > >
> > > How does this development effort work?
> > >
> > > a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the
committers or PMC?
> > > b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the
> > > specific tasks?
> > > c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to
Xerces
> > > functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it?
> > >
> > > I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the
> > > detail of the process.
> > >
> > > Again apologies, I am just eager to help out.
> > >
> > > - Nick
> > > --
> > > Nicholas Oddson
> > > Software Developer
> > > Open Text Corporation
>
>

Re: Question...

[Ben Bertola <bb...@promedix.com>]

I've been on this list for a couple of weeks now just kind of trying to get a feel
for everything and would also be interested in helping out where possible.  I have
to admit that I'm not too advanced in XML right now, but am using it quite a bit in
some projects I have right now.  One thing that I would like most is to work on the
XML Schema.  I know that we have support right now for some data types, but I would
like to write a mechanism to allow for people to define their own data types.  They
would have to provide adapters for their own data type validation but I think it
would be very usuable.  Especially if we could define a sytax where they can pass
different parameters to the type validation classes.   I would be primarily
interested in doing this in Java, since I don't know much about C, but I think that
this would be an extremely usefull feature, especially when combined with XSL etc.
    An example of where this might be usefull is in the following.   Suppose that
you want to use an XSL stylesheet to be able to write out a flat text file with
fixed field lengths to be imported into a suppliers Ordering System.  If you used a
Schema to validate the XML, you could write a FixedLengthValidator that takes in the
Strinng from the content of your XML element, and a parameter, which in this case
could be a number,  and your FixedLengthValidator could check how long it actually
is and provide a response as to whether this if a good FixedLength.
    What does everyone think of this kind of an addition?  Would it be too difficult
to accomplish and if it's something I could start working on where in the code
should I start to look?  I haven't looked at the source tree much to date, so any
pointers would be appreciated,
Ben Bertola


Mike Pogue wrote:

> There are a bunch of people working on Xerces-J and C right now.  Most
> of them are focusing on:
>         solidifying the core (e.g. namespaces)
>         completing DOM Level 2 (e.g ranges)
>         XML Schema (e.g. updating to the latest draft spec)
>         bugs (plenty of these to go around)
>         performance/memory consumption (we can always do better!)
>         porting to additional platforms (we have a lot, but we're getting new
>                 contributions in the areas of FreeBSD, Irix, et.al)
>
> If you have an idea, I'd suggest that you post it to the list, and see
> if people are interested!  The PMC doesn't assign work.  It's usually
> that somebody volunteers to do something, and nobody else objects (or
> they do, and a discussion takes place about what the right thing to do
> is).
>
> We'd love to have you help out!  What kind of things are you interested
> in?  Java? C++? Specific platforms?  Specific features? Specific
> applications like publishing?
>
> Mike
>
> Nicholas Oddson wrote:
> >
> > Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this and
> > couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO.
> >
> > How does this development effort work?
> >
> > a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the committers or PMC?
> > b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the
> > specific tasks?
> > c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to Xerces
> > functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it?
> >
> > I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the
> > detail of the process.
> >
> > Again apologies, I am just eager to help out.
> >
> > - Nick
> > --
> > Nicholas Oddson
> > Software Developer
> > Open Text Corporation

Re: Question...

[Mike Pogue <mp...@apache.org>]

There are a bunch of people working on Xerces-J and C right now.  Most
of them are focusing on:
	solidifying the core (e.g. namespaces)
	completing DOM Level 2 (e.g ranges)
	XML Schema (e.g. updating to the latest draft spec)
	bugs (plenty of these to go around)
	performance/memory consumption (we can always do better!)
	porting to additional platforms (we have a lot, but we're getting new
		contributions in the areas of FreeBSD, Irix, et.al)

If you have an idea, I'd suggest that you post it to the list, and see
if people are interested!  The PMC doesn't assign work.  It's usually
that somebody volunteers to do something, and nobody else objects (or
they do, and a discussion takes place about what the right thing to do
is).

We'd love to have you help out!  What kind of things are you interested
in?  Java? C++? Specific platforms?  Specific features? Specific
applications like publishing?

Mike

Nicholas Oddson wrote:
> 
> Apologies for posting this to the group, but I'm fairly new to this and
> couldn't find any information on the website or in the FAQs/INFO.
> 
> How does this development effort work?
> 
> a) Is it a task system where people are assigned work by the committers or PMC?
> b) Is a work request posted to the group and people volunteer for the
> specific tasks?
> c) Do I come up with an idea that I think would be an extension to Xerces
> functionality, propose it, get it approved and then work on it?
> 
> I found Roles & Responsibilities section of the web lacking as to the
> detail of the process.
> 
> Again apologies, I am just eager to help out.
> 
> - Nick
> --
> Nicholas Oddson
> Software Developer
> Open Text Corporation