[sc34wg3] FW: (dsssl) Interest in a DSSSL/HyTime University project??

[Mason, James David (MXM)]

Any of you HyTime gurus interested?

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Javier Farreres de la Morena [SMTP:spanish@inicia.es]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:05 PM
> To:	dssslist@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject:	(dsssl) Interest in a DSSSL/HyTime University project??
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> As you remember, some time ago I offered some students to work on the
> development
> of OpenJade tool.
> Work has been going on and we have done many things, more in the way =
of
> documentation than coding, as OpenJade had a serious lack of
> documentation,
> and it wasn't possible to introduce any code before we understood its
> class
> design.
> Now we are having serious problems with OpenJade compilation.
> But, anyway, time is passing, and in some 4 or 5 months I hope to =
have the
> first release where, at least, a simple page model will be available.
> Now I find that, the students that have been working on it will =
finish
> their
> work and go their way, and I was wondering if it would be possible to
> start
> a university-based impementation/research project to be able to =
retain
> those
> students, paying them for their work now of course.
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> I don't know if there are any university members in this list who =
could
> be interested in a project of this kind, directed to the development =
of
> DSSSL tools (concretely OpenJade), HyTime tools (no idea yet about =
what)
> and research beyond those standards.
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> In my oppinion it is an area that has been overlooked for long and =
there
> is a lot of work to be done here. Not in the way of creating any =
standard,
> this is a work to be done by ISO members and such. just research and
> implementation
> of tools for those standards.
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> I live in spain, and I suppose it would be a lot easier for european
> community
> based universities to join rather than from other parts of the world, =
and
> in order to ask for european community financement.
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> From my part, I have some publishing companies I work with that could =
show
> the industrial interest of such project by joining (depending on what =
cost
> does "join" mean for them).
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> Next Extreme meeting in Canada I am giving a presentation on the
> development
> of Openjade up to the moment. Unluckily no demonstration will be =
given as
> this 2 months stop due to compilation problems of untested CVS code =
and
> conflicts of configuration tools has been a serious drawback. But I =
hopw
> I can convince someone that OpenJade development is again working, =
and
> DSSSL
> is again alive.
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> Well, I wait for replies.
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> Javi
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