Re: ITP: Xalan-C++

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Nicolás" == Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> writes:

    Nicolás> From the webpage: "Xalan is an XSLT processor for
    Nicolás> transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML
    Nicolás> document types.

    Nicolás> Xalan-C++ version 1.0 is a robust implementation of the
    Nicolás> W3C Recommendations for XSL Transformations (XSLT) and
    Nicolás> the XML Path Language (XPath). It uses the Xerces-C++
    Nicolás> version 1.3.0 XML parser."

Is Xerces-C++ already packaged?

Otherwise, you might have to package that, too...

>From memory, when I last looked at Xerces, it looked so horrible from
a packaging point of view that I gave up before I even started. For
instance, it doesn't support automake or libtool, nor do the authors
understood the usual standards in creating shared libraries:

[620] [snoopy:bam] ~/share/source/xalan/xerces-1.2.0a >ls -l lib 
total 3064
-rwx------    1 bam      users     3132499 Aug  6 13:17 libxerces-c1_2.so*
[630] [snoopy:bam] ~/share/source/xalan/xml-xalan >ls -l c/lib 
total 3780
-rwx------    1 bam      users     2614534 Jul  8 02:53 libxalan-c0_40.so*
-rwx------    1 bam      users     1242654 Jul  8 04:23 libxerces-c1_2.so*

So, while I really would like to see Xalan-C++ in Debian, you might have
a few hurdles on the way.

(of course, these issues may have been fixed by now)
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>