[xmljs-users] Introductory word from Dmitry Khudorozhkov

[Dmitry K. <dmi...@ya...>]

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night for all users
of XML for SCRIPT!

As you already know from David Joham's post,
I am a new maintainer of the project. This message
will tell you a little about who I am,
the present and the future of the library.

1. Short story about me.

   I am a freelance programmer from Moscow, Russia.
   I'm 25, not married, graduate of a Moscow State
   Institute of Electronics and Mathematics
   (Applied Maths course).

   Having experience of almost 10 years of C/C++
   development and 5 years of web/JavaScript
   programming, I've been recently engaged in several
   XML/XSLT-related projects, and, by chance, found
   XML for SCRIPT to be immensely helpful.

   I've fixed some of the bugs listed on the
   project's site, sent them to David, and, having
   some free time and wish to make a better world,
   became a maintainer of the project.

   My "portfolio":

  
http://www.codeproject.com/script/articles/list_articles.asp?userid=1044648

2. Development roadmap.

   What will be done prior to release of version 3.2:

   - all patches and bugfixes users have submitted
     since the release of v. 3.1 will be incorporated;

   - all (there aren't too much) bugs reported will
     be fixed;

   - relaxed-mode operation, where some requirements
     of XML spec. can be bypassed, will be introduced
     to SAX/W3C DOM/classic DOM parsers;

   - XPath add-on will be moved more closely to W3C
     recommendation conformance (full conformance,
     however, will not be achieved in 3.2 release);

   - augment the test suite with the test cases for
     all of the above.

   Plans for the near future:

   - choose algorithm and implement one-pass DTD
     validation plugin for SAX parser;

   - implement (incremental) DTD validation plug-in
     for W3C DOM parser;

   - push XPath add-on to full W3C recommendation
     conformance.

   Plans for the not-so-near future (probably several
   years):

   - implement XSD and RelaxNG Core validation
plugins;

   - fully implement all SAX and SAX2 interfaces.

3. Release policy.

   - Intermediary versions (of either full package
     and distinct parts) will be released to the
     public from time to time. To aid this,
     individual branch will be created in
     SourceForge download area, where all development
     versions will be posted.

4. Contacts.

   On any question, feel free to contact me at:

   dmitrykhudorozhkov[at]yahoo[dot]com

5. Donations.

   If you/your organization find XML for SCRIPT
   very-very useful and happen to have a spare $ or
   eur, please contact me directly rather than using
   SourceForge's donation system. (Eastern Europe has
   some problems with PayPal, sorry :-))

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XML for SCRIPT is a very special project for me. It's
not the first time I lead the development, but for the
first time I've been given an honor to lead a
community of such a project. I'm grateful to David for
giving me the rights of a project administrator, and I
promise to use them for the good of XML for SCRIPT
users.

Happy Christmas and New Year to You!

Best regards,

 - Dmitry Khudorozhkov, maintainer of XML for SCRIPT.

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