Hi Folks,
To all the developers - here is a to-do list for the project. You =
can pick any to get involved :
[1] Swing integration - Plugin htmlparser and demonstrate how it can be =
used instead of HTML Parser that comes with the Sun JDK
[2] Set up a servlet - which allows people to test the html parser =
online. The idea is :
(i) Enter your URL - and click Parse
(ii) The parser is launched on the server, and produces all the =
nodes (node.print()) on the display.
(iii) If an exception gets thrown, then this url is saved into a =
database(??)
(iv) If no exception is thrown, but however there is an error in the =
parsing, then a report can be entered on the result page by the tester, =
telling us why he thinks the output is incorrect.
(v) We get notified everytime there is a report, either of a crash, =
or a human reported error
The vision is - to capitalize on distributed testing resources. Also =
everyone has a tendency to desire simple testing -without downloading =
and wasting time thru manuals. I think we can get a lot of feedback if =
we can harness the power of the web.
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To do this - some simple servlets will need to be written. And we =
will need to find hosting, either at sourceforge or myservlets.com
[3] Create AWT components which can understand HTML formatting. Since =
HTMLParser works with Java 1.1, no special download is required for it =
run in standard browsers.=20
[4] Have a report section on the htmlparser site, where people can =
report and see how html parser is being used in various industry =
projects.
Pls feel free to add to this list - especially if you have any =
interesting insights or vision about where you see this project going. =
Once we are done with some basic brainstorming, we could probably set =
milestones for each of these tasks.=20
Cheers,
Somik
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