Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 91979 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2001 09:13:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.smb-tec.com) (postfix@213.68.242.2) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 28 Feb 2001 09:13:31 -0000 Received: from lilli (lilli.softwarebuero.de [111.112.113.174]) by mail.smb-tec.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B8A9773FF for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:13:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:13:37 +0100 From: Gerd Mueller To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Volunteers: First - cut - Deadline 2nd of March Message-Id: <20010228101337.6c37dda9.gerd@smb-tec.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.61 (GTK+ 1.2.8; Linux 2.2.13-7mdk; i586) Organization: SMB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, > 1) Low-level processing components that have XML as their base: Parser, > XSLT processor, Soap, XLink, FOP, etc. AND AN XML DATABASE! What about ozoneXML or dbxml (although I saw that dbxml is more than a XML database). > 2) User level utilities that are enablers of XML: XML Editor, XSLT Editor, > LinkMaker, Schema Editor (examples from the top of my head). As Kelly already suggested Merlot would be good, but I've found another interesting XML editor with a different approach. It's called 'Conge' (http://www.conglomerate.org/). > 3) XML-specific testing aids, i.e. DOM comparitor, encoding tests, HTML > comparitor? These might work in conjunction with a more general test > infrastructure. > 4) Cocoon because it is already here and because it is Cocoon. But Cocoon > seems to me to go beyond pure XML specificity, and is more at the > application level, so it's a bit on the borderline. See below about > subjectivity. > What did I miss? Shared utility infrastructure?? Psuedo-standard > interfaces? Some kind of data source integration layer, i.e. some piece of software that fills the gap between e.g. Cocoon as the frontend and e.g. databases or mail boxes as the backend. I know, that you can access RDBMS with esql directly from Cocoon, but there are so much data sources more than RDBMS. I think, a content management system (or is it content syndication ?) would be a real benefit. Of course, as a main developer of the Prowler project I would suggest this piece of software, but you may have other ideas. Best Regards, Gerd -- ________________________________________________________________ Gerd Mueller gerd@smb-tec.com SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com