xao-php-devel — Developers of the XAO class library for PHP

[xaophp-d] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

_______________________________________________________________________

Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
_______________________________________________________________________

[xaophp-d] current development

[Terence K. <tk...@fa...>]

Hello everyone,

At the moment, I have hit a rough spot at work which means I basically 
have not had time to do much with XAO even though I've formulated many 
ideas to resolve some release issues. In the mean time, I have asked 
some of the developer members to look at various features for the 1.0 
release -- namely, XML-RPC and an XML:DB Java client.

Prior to creating the XAO project, I also had an abandoned project for 
an image gallery kicking around at home. I've decided that it would make 
a good candidate for showcasing some XAO features and for testing the 
XAO platform itself. I plan on using it to help drive XAO development. 
If you want to know more about it, check out the new page I added to the 
XAO site which will list "projects using XAO".

http://xao-php.sourceforge.net/ctrl.php?op=links-using

regards.

[xaophp-d] update

[Terence K. <tk...@fa...>]

Welcome to all the newcomers on the xao-php-devel list.

I'd like to just mention a few issues which concern the XAO code at the 
moment.

NAMESPACE ISSUES IN DOMXML EXTENSION:
There doesn't seem to be any way to determine what namespace prefix 
(qualifier) is in use for a particular namespace identifier. I spent 
quite a bit of time on this but was unsuccessful in finding a 
workaround. Basically, the DomXsl class needs to ascertain the prefix 
(if any) in use by "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform". Most of the 
time it is "xsl:" since most people use the following namespace declaration:
<xsl:stylesheet
     version    ="1.0"
     xmlns:xsl  ="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
/>
Obviously, though, one cannot assume this.
If someone could come up with a solution to this quandary, that would be 
a huge help.
I've made some observations in the usernote at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.domnode-add-namespace.php


ERROR REPORTING WITH THE DOMXML EXTENSION
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't seem to be a propper way to 
retrieve errors from DOMXML operations. One suggestion is to wrap the 
danger function in ob_start()/ob_end_clean() and then test 
ob_get_contents() to see if the function tried to emit an error message 
to output. Of course, this is completely useless if the user has 
switched off error reporting to output. On the other hand, it could be 
seen as better than "nothing" if there is no alternative to capturing 
the errors. Perhaps, we could change the error reporting status 
temporarily for the op and set it back after the op. Hmmm...
operations of particular concern include

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.domxml-open-file.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.domxml-open-mem.php
...both of which are used in the DomFactory class. Currently, if the 
input data does not parse, it reverts to the Expat XML extension to 
generate the errors. This doesn't always work since some data will parse 
successfully in Expat but not domxml

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.domxml-xslt-stylesheet-doc.php
...which is used in Transformer::_TransformWithDomxml()

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xpath-eval-expression.php
...which will be used by AppDoc::SetCustomTagQuery()

Any thoughts?


TESTING/IMPLEMENTING AppDoc::SetCustomTagQuery()
One of our new recruits, Ray Hunter, had kindly volunteered to persue 
this task.
http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=86820&group_id=88235&group_project_id=32152


OVERLOADING SetCustomTagName() with array lists.
While wrting that last item, it just occured to me that 
SetCustomTagName() is more limited than it needs to be.
http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=86820&group_id=88235&group_project_id=32152
I may have a crack at that this arfternoon.


There are some other issues but I'll save those for a rainy day ;)

Thanks for your support.

PS.
Let me know if you think I should break down all the issues into 
separate emails in future.

[xaophp-d] Re: latest updates

[Terence <tk....@fa...>]

I neglected to mention that the website has also been updated to reflect 
the design on the new logo contributed by Flavio. Thankyou very much for 
that Flavio, I think the new logo looks awesome.
I've also added a "credits" page as requested.

http://xao-php.sourceforge.net/credits.php





Terence Kearns wrote:

> I've been fairly quiet because I've been fairly busy on the library.
> 
> There have been some design enhancement and much gap filling. 
> Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to test anything yet. Tonight I 
> have uploaded the latest changes and tagged it off as pre-test in the 
> CVS system. If you want to see what I have done so far, then check this 
> tag out of the CVS (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88235). If 
> you've never used CVS before, then I recommend using Eclipse for it's 
> CVS plugin (www.eclipse.org)
> 
> bypass that old main page in the root directory and load up the tutorial 
> (there is only one at the moment). if you install it under /xao in your 
> localhost webserver then you can get it using
> http://localhost/xao/tutorials/ and then click on "introduction" from 
> the tutorial index page.
> 
> I'm keen to get your thoughts at this early stage. I still hope to put 
> together the first alpha release by the end of this weekend.
> 
> My strategy includes a plan to produce the best documentation I can for 
> this project - I think this is the key to success. There will be a 
> strong focus on tutorials. API documentation will be comprehensice and 
> will be generated from the source. I have been quite successful with PHP 
> Documentor. I also plan on writing some articles to go on the website. 
> Writing articles will be open to anyone who wants to share their 
> experiences about XAO.
> 
> I am also committed to promoting XAO as much as possible on web forums 
> and other places around the net as soon as it goes stable. I think we're 
> looking at a couple of months before we reach stable, so I'll let you 
> guys know so you can spread the word :P
> 
> Thankyou all for showing an interest in the XAO project.
> 
> regards.
> 
> 
> 

[xaophp-d] latest updates

[Terence <tk....@fa...>]

I've been fairly quiet because I've been fairly busy on the library.

There have been some design enhancement and much gap filling.
Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to test anything yet. Tonight I
have uploaded the latest changes and tagged it off as pre-test in the
CVS system. If you want to see what I have done so far, then check this
tag out of the CVS (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88235). If
you've never used CVS before, then I recommend using Eclipse for it's
CVS plugin (www.eclipse.org)

bypass that old main page in the root directory and load up the tutorial
(there is only one at the moment). if you install it under /xao in your
localhost webserver then you can get it using
http://localhost/xao/tutorials/ and then click on "introduction" from
the tutorial index page.

I'm keen to get your thoughts at this early stage. I still hope to put
together the first alpha release by the end of this weekend.

My strategy includes a plan to produce the best documentation I can for
this project - I think this is the key to success. There will be a
strong focus on tutorials. API documentation will be comprehensice and
will be generated from the source. I have been quite successful with PHP
Documentor. I also plan on writing some articles to go on the website.
Writing articles will be open to anyone who wants to share their
experiences about XAO.

I am also committed to promoting XAO as much as possible on web forums
and other places around the net as soon as it goes stable. I think we're
looking at a couple of months before we reach stable, so I'll let you
guys know so you can spread the word :P

Thankyou all for showing an interest in the XAO project.

regards.

[xaophp-d] latest updates

[Terence K. <tk...@fa...>]

I've been fairly quiet because I've been fairly busy on the library.

There have been some design enhancement and much gap filling. 
Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to test anything yet. Tonight I 
have uploaded the latest changes and tagged it off as pre-test in the 
CVS system. If you want to see what I have done so far, then check this 
tag out of the CVS (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88235). If 
you've never used CVS before, then I recommend using Eclipse for it's 
CVS plugin (www.eclipse.org)

bypass that old main page in the root directory and load up the tutorial 
(there is only one at the moment). if you install it under /xao in your 
localhost webserver then you can get it using
http://localhost/xao/tutorials/ and then click on "introduction" from 
the tutorial index page.

I'm keen to get your thoughts at this early stage. I still hope to put 
together the first alpha release by the end of this weekend.

My strategy includes a plan to produce the best documentation I can for 
this project - I think this is the key to success. There will be a 
strong focus on tutorials. API documentation will be comprehensice and 
will be generated from the source. I have been quite successful with PHP 
Documentor. I also plan on writing some articles to go on the website. 
Writing articles will be open to anyone who wants to share their 
experiences about XAO.

I am also committed to promoting XAO as much as possible on web forums 
and other places around the net as soon as it goes stable. I think we're 
looking at a couple of months before we reach stable, so I'll let you 
guys know so you can spread the word :P

Thankyou all for showing an interest in the XAO project.

regards.

[xaophp-d] welcome to this new project

[Terence <tk....@fa...>]

Hello there and welcome to the XAO project.


I've recently posted some news updates to

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305735
and
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305736

if you are interested.

cheers.