Xerces is to be released NEXT WEEK

[Elena Litani <el...@ca.ibm.com>]

The next Xerces release is scheduled for next week ( Wed. or Thur.)

The tentative _code_freeze_ is Tuesday.

I know that most of the committers are busy fixing bugs and adding support
to the latest W3C specifications (XML 1.1 and  DOM Level 3).

Today Dean Chalker submitted  patches for XPointer implementation in
XInclude (thanks a lot, Dean!).

I have not read the XPointer spec. and given the schedule I don't have time
to read it before we release. Given that I can't review the patches.

Do we have any committers for Xerces-J project who know the XPointer spec
and have time to review and commit the patches submitted before the
release?

If not, I am afraid we won't be able to add XPointer support for this
release. We will definitely try to include it in the next release
(tentatively in January).

Btw, we need to decide what package the XPointer implementation should be
added to.
Should it be in "xinclude.xpointer", "impl.xpointer", "xerces.xpointer"?

Thank you,
--
Elena Litani/ IBM Toronto



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Re: XPointer Issue?

[Andy Clark <an...@apache.org>]

Elena Litani wrote:
> I have not read the XPointer spec. and given the schedule I don't have time
> to read it before we release. Given that I can't review the patches.

Has the XPointer patent issue[0] been resolved? I know
that was one of the main reasons we stayed away from
implementing it for so long.

Sun holds a patent but, according to a W3C posting[1],
is making it available under "reasonable and non-
discriminatory" (RAND) licensing. Has Apache worked
out an agreement with Sun regarding this patent so
that we can implement XPointer?

I'm not a lawyer so the wording of the document makes
my head spin. Does it mean that we *can* go ahead and
implement it as long as we make the implementation
available royalty-free to others? OR... does it mean
that we have to have a written agreement with Sun
prior to implementation?

[0] http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xptr_IPR_summary.html
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-linking-ig/2001Apr/0056.html

-- 
Andy Clark * andyc@apache.org


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