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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [XOM-interest] Upcoming milestone drops
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:35:29 -0500

The recent XInclude 2nd last call working draft has led me to rethink my plan for getting to API freeze (alpha 1) in the near future. The plan is now as follows:

1. A drop in the next day or two to accumulate all the existing fixes and changes now in CVS. This will still support the old XInclude syntax.

2. A drop in the next week or so that supports the new XInclude syntax, and removes support for the old XInclude syntax. This mostly affects URIs that use XPointer fragment identifiers.

3. A pre-alpha in the next month that includes the one remaining API issue on the table: having NodeFactory return Nodes objects instead of specific classes.

4. An alpha release by the end of the year that picks either the old or new NodeFactory syntax, depending on performance measurements and user feedback.

It's also possible that the alpha will remove the XInclude package, and reposition those classes in the samples package, at least until the XInclude syntax is more cooked. The latest XInclude draft is quite a radical shift from the previous ones and is already seeing some pushback from within the W3C. I'm not confident its syntax is stable, and I question the wisdom of baking an unstable draft spec into the core XOM API. I need to think about this some more.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA



  • [XOM-interest] Upcoming milestone drops, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 11/11/2003

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