XSLTC 1: Things To Do

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Planned releases:
09/??/01 Completed

For release: 09/??/01 , ????
Goal [conformance]: XSLT 1.0 compliant 100%.
Goal [performance]: Maintain current level.
Goal [stability]: Stable, reasonable.
Goal [api]: API Complete.
Goal [documentation]: Documentation functionally complete.

1) Modify Xalan test enviroment to test XSLTC as a component of XalanJ2.
context: test, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: tests, who: TA, Shane, priority: high

2) Finish the implementation of id() and key() in patterns.
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: feature, who: MJ, priority: high

3) Continue to improve the handling of name spaces. There are a number of bugs that are independent of the lack of namespace nodes. (bugzilla 1411, 1506, 1518, 2582, 2801, 2857, 2859, 2863, 2535, 2954, 2840)
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: ??, priority: high

4) Fix bugs that impact the XSLTMark performance benchmark. (bugzilla 1376, 1498, 1512, 1532, 2351, 2517, 2553, 3065, 3066).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: ??, priority: high

5) Fix bugs reflecting positional problems (1410, 1532, 2939).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bugs, who: TM, priority: high

6) Fix bugs on dealing with XPATH/Axes expressions (1498, 2551, 2553, 2572, 2932).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: TM, priority: high

7) Fix bugs involving template selection (1397, 2749, 2582, 2585, 2695, 2749, 2754, 2886, 2937).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: ??, priority: medium

8) Fix bugs affecting numbering (2901, 2931).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: ??, priority: medium

9) Fix bugs affecting comment and processing-intruction nodes (2599, 2834, 2858).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: bug, who: ??, priority: medium

10) Implement name space nodes (bugzilla 1379).
context: code, packages:org.apache.xalan.xsltc, category: feature, who: MJ, priority: low

11) Implement an extension to support the redirection of output to multiple output files from within a stylesheet (equivalent to xalan:redirect or saxon:output). Note: Task may be implemented as a result of integrating Xsltc and Xalan and using shared code.
context: code, packages:????, category: feature, integration with Xalan, who: ??, priority: medium

12) Implement a node-set extension to convert result tree fragments to node-sets. This enables sorting and grouping of nodes assigned to a tree variable. Note: Task may be implemented as a result of integrating Xsltc and Xalan and using shared code.
context: code, packages:????, category: feature, integration with Xalan, who: ??, priority: medium

13) Add support for nonstatic external Java functions. Note: Task may be implemented as a result of integrating Xsltc and Xalan and using shared code.
context: code, packages:????, category: feature, integration with Xalan, who: ??, priority: medium

14) Fix bugs affecting the correctness of ouput (1439, 1504, 1512, 1516, 1520, 1525, 2517, 2520, 2578, 2948, 2951, 2952, 2954, 3005, 3065). Note: Task may be implemented as a result of integrating Xsltc and Xalan and using shared code.
context: code, packages:????, category: feature, integration with Xalan, who: ??, priority: medium

15) Use SAX to build the AST. The DOM builder (the real DOM builder, not our quasi-DOM builder) receives SAX events when it builds the DOM. The compiler.Parser class could possible receive these SAX events directly, and thereby eliminating the need for a DOM (saves loads of time and memory).
context: code, AST, category: architecture, who: ??, priority: medium

16) Consider building a DOM-2-'DOM' converter, perhaps by adding a second DOM builder inner class to our DOM. Then we would have one SAX DOM builder and one DOM DOM builder. I don't know if JAXP lets you supply the stylesheet as a DOM. If it doesn't, we should assign this task a very low priority. There is no point in spending a lot of time on this if JAXP users will never be able to use this functionality.
context: code, DOM, category: architecture, who: ??, priority: medium


Developers:

A list of some of people currently working on working on XSLTC: