Re: [xml] XPath 2, XSLT 2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:33:37AM +1100, Steve Ball wrote:
> Hi Daniel,

  Hi Steve,

> Firstly, thanks for your support and encouragement. As you, and others, 
> are aware the development model outlined in my message was not my first 
> choice to undertake this work. I completely understand that you must 
> point out the risks of this approach.

  okay, thanks for understanding my viewpoint too :-)

> I've been developing and managing open source software projects for many 
> years (eg. the XSLT Standard Library and others), so I know that it is 
> more than just a licence. I also know the value of quality software 
> engineering and what it takes to achieve high quality.

  It's not that I have doubts about your value, as I said I think
technically you are doing the right choices so far, but the approach
has some uncertainties I had to point out !

> An important aspect of the plan that I am working to is to merge the  
> XPath 2/XSLT 2 code back in to the main libraries, for reasons that  
> should be obvious. If that were not the case then I'd just fork the code 
> and get on with it (I also considered writing an XSLT 2 implementation 
> from scratch, but libxml2 has great value that I don't want to lose so I 
> quickly dismissed that plan). I'll work with you to make sure that the 
> code quality is acceptable - that's the best-case scenario.

  Yes. Just to make 100% sure, if when the code is available, you would
release it under the MIT Licence which is libxml2/libxslt one, right ?

> Open Source is not incompatible with commercialism. I take as an example 

  Well you can see where/who I work for, so sure !

> what ActiveState does for Perl, Python and Tcl. What I am hoping to do is 
> setup something that complements and supports the open source 
> libxml2/libxslt project.

  there is many approaches, that is one, another is to just capitalize
the expertise when doing the code and use it to generate the
service/teaching once established, but as I understand you're also
trying to get some funding for the first part, a model I don't know
and with some drawback. But I certainly understand where you're coming
from !

  I wish you the best for this project, try to close the loop as
much as possible on the technical choices so that there is no nasty
surprizes when I get to see the code :-)

Daniel

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