[XML-SIG] What should we be doing?

[Mike Olson]

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Thanks for all of the feed back on the 4Suite tools.  We have been working on
packaging and setup in the last few releases and has improved steadily thanks to
direct feedback from users.  If you are still having problems with installation,
you might want to try the latest versions.  If you are trying the latest
versions please send us feed back and we will look into any problems.

As for documentation we only document things that are not in the offical specs.

One last note about our CORBA support.  Non CORBA installation of 4DOM has been
available for many versions.  In an orbless install the CORBA like files are
just dummies and don't degrade performance.  We do plan to release a version
without any CORBA infastructure in the core package.

Mike

Greg Duncan wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Further to my earlier comments, I tried the 4Thought package and the same
> comments apply, you just can't take it out of the box and run it, and the
> documentation is not brilliant.
>
> I ended up writing my own module to implement the DOM as it was faster than
> mucking around with someone elses code. In fairness though I did use this
> exercise to bring myself up to speed on python and refresh some XML concepts
> as I have been doing 'other stuff' for the past 12 months.
>
> I certanly beileve enough in python / XML that I would be prepared to spend
> some of my personal time organising resources and testing updating
> documentation for the python XML community - an advantage as being
> relatively new to python, I don't make the same assumptions that you do.
>
> If this interests anyone then let me know!
>
> _____________________________________________
> Greg Duncan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
> To: <xml-sig@python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 1:56 PM
> Subject: [XML-SIG] What should we be doing?
>
> > Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > Has anyone seen this in action?  What should be our response?  Python
> > > used to be #1 in the XML scripting world -- lately, I don't see that
> > > much activity... :-(
> >
> > My only major concern with the distribution is that it is too hard to
> > use. There are little bits spread all over the Internet, they compete
> > with each other in confusing ways. They aren't that easy to install. The
> > SIG distribution is too large. We need Python 1.6 or 1.53 to have
> > "Python batteries included".
> >
> > I would suggest we should evaluate the 4thought stuff (minus CORBA
> > (sorry!)) from that point of view. As an integrated package it is
> > incredibly powerful and competitive with anything they have in the Java
> > world. And we should finish and standardize EasySAX -- perhaps with an
> > eye to stealing some ideas from SAXON.
> >
> >  Paul Prescod
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
>
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Mike Olson
Consulting Member
FourThought LLC
http://www.fourthought.com  http://opentechnology.org


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