[meta-sig] XML-SIG: Mission statement

[Paul Prescod]

Fred L. Drake wrote:
>   Add the list of deliverables as proposed in your earlier message.
>   I seem to recall that Paul Prescod had presented a mission statement
> with his proposal for an SGML SIG; have you looked at that?  

Here's my proposal again. Perhaps some of it will be relevant:

> I propose to create an SGML sig with an explicit 6 month time to live
> and an option for renewal at that point.
> 
> SGML-SIG: A Special Interest Group on APIs and software for SGML/XML
> processing
> ----
> Blurb:
> 
> This SIG exists in order to discuss classes, interfaces and software 
> for the processing of SGML documents (including the XML subset).
> 
> For more information on the SIG's mandate, see
> 
> http://***not yet set up see below***
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> ----
> Mandate:
> 
> This list exists in order to discuss classes, interfaces and software
> for the processing of SGML documents (including the XML subset).
> 
> Concrete goals of the first mandate should include:
> 
>  * Python version of the World Wide Web Consortium "Document Object
> Model" API (this should be a straightforward translation of IDL to
> Python)
> 
>  * Development of Python-specific event based and tree APIs for
> processing of SGML documents. (perhaps inspired by similar efforts in
> the Java or C++ worlds and the existing Python SGML processing packages)
> 
>  * Development of a validating XML parser that would serve to make XML
> competitive in XML processing.
> 
>  * Development of a filter for the output of NSGMLS that generates the
> events defined in our API.
> 
> Longer range goals might include:
> 
>  * Embedding of Python into James Clark's C++ SP library.
>  * Wrapping of C++ SP and Grove API with our Python-specific APIs.
>  * Development of higher level tools for SGML processing (e.g. a
> DSSSL-like tool, an "XML-Writer" library, etc.)

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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