Parser in other languages

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

On 06/05/2010 13:46, Scott Wilson wrote:

> I was thinking it might be good to port the W3C Widget parser library to some other languages, too - anyone interested?


Why? What does that bring to the project?

I'm not saying people shouldn't do it if they want to, I'm just 
wondering if it is something I should be pushing in community 
development work.

Ross

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Re: Parser in other languages

[Scott Wilson <sc...@gmail.com>]

On 6 May 2010, at 13:57, Ross Gardler wrote:

> On 06/05/2010 13:46, Scott Wilson wrote:
> 
>> I was thinking it might be good to port the W3C Widget parser library to some other languages, too - anyone interested?
> 
> Why? What does that bring to the project?
> 
> I'm not saying people shouldn't do it if they want to, I'm just wondering if it is something I should be pushing in community development work.

I was wondering if the potential user base for the parser library could be wider than that for the full server application, especially if it was available for different languages/platforms. However, there may not be much demand until more people become aware of the spec, so perhaps the timing isn't right to do porting yet.

Another thing I was wondering was that, as the parser lib doesn't have any GPL dependencies, could it be released on its own?

> 
> Ross
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