Quarterly report from Apache Xalan (August 12, 2005)

[Brian Minchau <mi...@ca.ibm.com>]

Quarterly report from Apache Xalan to the ASF board

- Brian Minchau
  Apache Xalan PMC Chairperson
  August 12, 2005

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Xalan
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Two people have resigned from the Apache Xalan PMC:
   Matt Hoyt (Resigned from PMC on June 30, 2005)
   Berin Lautenbach (Resigned from PMC on August 7, 2005)
although both are still committers for Apache Xalan.

The PMC now has these members:
   Arun Yadav
   Brian Minchau (Chairperson)
   Dmitry Hayes
   Henry Zongaro
   John Gentilin
   Ramesh Mandava
   Santiago Pericas-Geertsen



As part of migration from an XML subproject to a top
level project the webpage http://xalan.apache.org
now exists. It is a rather small page but points to
the home pages of the two XSLT processors that previously
existed, as well as an HTML page of the Apache Xalan Charter.


Xalan-C
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Xerces-C has announced the Xerces-C 2.7 for the end of August,
Xalan-C committers are starting discussions for a Xalan-C 1.10
release for around the end of August, but this still needs to
be proposed and voted on.

The upcomming release would have:
  > XML 1.1 support
  > Serializer redesign
  > performance fixes
  > support for Xerces-C 2.7 XML parser
  > the usual bug fixes

Xalan-J
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A monthly tele-conference continues. It is open to all active
Xalan-J committers to discuss JIRA issues.
The Apache Xalan PMC chairperson was made aware
that there were concerns about the possibility of decisions
being made at this meeting. No "decisions" or votes are made
at this meeting. Decisions or votes are done on the appropriate
mailing list and follow the Apache Xalan Charter.
These meetings are purely technical.

Xalan-J 2.7 was released August 8, 2005. The previous release
was Xalan-J 2.6 on February 29, 2004, about 17 months before.

New features in the 2.7 release are:
  > Support for JAXP 1.3 (thanks to Sun for donating JAXP 1.3)
    including new default error handling behavior required as
    part of JAXP 1.3 support.
  > Support for XML 1.1 in input XML documents, output XML
    documents and stylesheets themselves (previously only
    XML 1.0 was supported)
  > Updates to the SQL extension an SQL samples to support
    the Apache Derby database.
  > Support for alternate BSF (Bean Scripting Framework)
    implementations.
  > The code that does the serialization (writes the output
    to a file) was separated into an independent serializer.jar
    that can be used to write out a DOM, or SAX events into
    a file, or stream of characters without dependencies
    on any XSLT processor. Perhaps in the future Xerces-J will
    use this serializer.
  > Minor restructuring of the source and binary distributions.
  > Various performance fixes, and memory leak fixes, and others.
    A full list is at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/readme.html
  > Upgrade to Xerces-J 2.7.1 and a new version of xml-commons
    (xml-commons-external-1.3.02).



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