- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:24:53 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- cc: "Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>, OpenJade-Devel <openjade-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > [ Mostly off-topic for openjade-devel, but I'm CCing since I ] > [ mention OpenJade/OpenSP <URL:http://openjade.sourceforge.net/> ] [ for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, I have created a Web version of SP. I wasn't aware of OpenSP when I started that work, so it's based on sp-1.3.4. Feeding my work into OpenSP is a goal for when I can find the time. ] > Actually, the biggest help, if you or Michael can find the time, would > probably be contributing to the OpenJade project in the OpenSP area. I'm a > bit fuzzy on what Gerald had to say about it, but AFAICT, OpenSP is the > only sane choice for the future. If it had your Redirect patch applied I'd > have started pushing for adopting that as soon as OpenSP 1.5 is final (it's > in pre5 right now). The HTTP patches (both Liam's and mine) are confined to a single source file "URLStorage.cxx". With a bit of luck, they can be simply dropped into OpenSP. > * Output redirection. > -- Right now we're doing some gnarly shell redirects to get output where > we want it. Being able to use command line switches to put it in a > file would be much preferable. That's something I've already tackled for Code Valet. It should be straightforward to make it configurable from the commandline. But it has proved a little tricky, and has bitten me more than once. > * Specify all environment stuff on the command line. > -- Right now we're setting SP_ENCODING et al in the environment; this > is messy and falls apart in mod_perl land. nsgmls from mod_perl??? Rather you than me! But again, I've had to do that to run it from the Web, so a commandline variant should be equally straightforward (though a hack). > * Ability to say: "use this SGML Declaration and this DTD". > -- SGML Open Catalogs are fine and dandy an all, but for some things it > would be much less painfull to say "use this" on the command line. I'd like to, but that'll be a longer-term thing. I'd like it still better if someone with a much deeper knowledge of SGML than mine looked at it. > * Blue Sky: A Perl (XS) Module Interface I don't see myself getting involved with that. If I'm hacking SP, that's because I don't want to wrap it in something else - like Perl. > * Blue Sky: Configurable Error Format > -- The error messages are an exception for most SGML Processors, but > for the Validator they are the norm. Being able to play tricks with > the format and fields of the error output would be usefull. Reporting > context a bonus! I've looked at that a little, and I've implemented a compile-time option to switch between JJC's format and HTML-ised format for Code Valet. I'll be doing some more work in this field in due course. -- Nick Kew Is your site a lawsuit waiting to happen? See <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/intranet/> before it's too late.
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