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Posted to general@xml.apache.org by "Arnold, Curt" <Cu...@hyprotech.com> on 2000/03/03 15:40:59 UTC
[PROPOSAL] XSLT library project
I talked with several people at XTech about the possibility of an open-source, collaborative environment to develop useful XSLT transforms. Currently, there does not seem to be such a place and the
general reaction was fairly enthusiastic. Basically, it would look like a whole bunch of little microprojects instead of the fairly large existing projects and would not start with a large donated
code base from one vendor.
Some micro-projects that I would envision are:
XML Schema compilers/"preprocessors"
XML Metadata Interchange -> Scalable Vector Graphics
Schema documentation stylesheets
I think that Apache would be the ideal home for this. If not, do you have any suggestions?
Re: [PROPOSAL] XSLT library project
Posted by Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>.
Donald Ball wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Arnold, Curt wrote:
>
> > I talked with several people at XTech about the possibility of an
> > open-source, collaborative environment to develop useful XSLT
> > transforms. Currently, there does not seem to be such a place and the
> > general reaction was fairly enthusiastic. Basically, it would look
> > like a whole bunch of little microprojects instead of the fairly large
> > existing projects and would not start with a large donated code base
> > from one vendor.
> >
> > Some micro-projects that I would envision are:
> >
> > XML Schema compilers/"preprocessors"
> > XML Metadata Interchange -> Scalable Vector Graphics
> > Schema documentation stylesheets
> >
> > I think that Apache would be the ideal home for this. If not, do you
> > have any suggestions?
>
> I like this. A useful repository of XSLT stylesheets? Not bad. Maybe we
> could get some experience maintaining libraries of these suckers too. +1.
+1 as well.
There are tons of general stylesheets that can be created:
for example, the "xml prettyprinter": transforms general XML into
IE5-style dynamic tress using DHTML.
James (Tauber) maintains www.xslinfo.com and he wanted to host such a
repository... but maybe we should do it here to get better audience.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
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Re: [PROPOSAL] XSLT library project
Posted by "Kevin A. Burton" <bu...@relativity.yi.org>.
Donald Ball wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Arnold, Curt wrote:
>
> > I talked with several people at XTech about the possibility of an
> > open-source, collaborative environment to develop useful XSLT
> > transforms. Currently, there does not seem to be such a place and the
> > general reaction was fairly enthusiastic. Basically, it would look
> > like a whole bunch of little microprojects instead of the fairly large
> > existing projects and would not start with a large donated code base
> > from one vendor.
> >
> > Some micro-projects that I would envision are:
> >
> > XML Schema compilers/"preprocessors"
> > XML Metadata Interchange -> Scalable Vector Graphics
> > Schema documentation stylesheets
> >
> > I think that Apache would be the ideal home for this. If not, do you
> > have any suggestions?
>
> I like this. A useful repository of XSLT stylesheets? Not bad. Maybe we
> could get some experience maintaining libraries of these suckers too. +1.
>
> - donald
+1. I would be willing to contribute anything from Jetspeed.
Also there needs to be a search engine behind them and everything should
be in CVS.
--
Kevin A Burton (burton@apache.org)
http://relativity.yi.org
Message to SUN: "Open Source Java!"
"For evil to win is for good men to do nothing."
Re: [PROPOSAL] XSLT library project
Posted by Donald Ball <ba...@webslingerZ.com>.
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Arnold, Curt wrote:
> I talked with several people at XTech about the possibility of an
> open-source, collaborative environment to develop useful XSLT
> transforms. Currently, there does not seem to be such a place and the
> general reaction was fairly enthusiastic. Basically, it would look
> like a whole bunch of little microprojects instead of the fairly large
> existing projects and would not start with a large donated code base
> from one vendor.
>
> Some micro-projects that I would envision are:
>
> XML Schema compilers/"preprocessors"
> XML Metadata Interchange -> Scalable Vector Graphics
> Schema documentation stylesheets
>
> I think that Apache would be the ideal home for this. If not, do you
> have any suggestions?
I like this. A useful repository of XSLT stylesheets? Not bad. Maybe we
could get some experience maintaining libraries of these suckers too. +1.
- donald