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Re: RFS: html-xml-utils (W3C simple HTML and XML utilities)



On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:24:07 +0200, "Geert Stappers"
<stappers@stappers.nl> said:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:41:10PM -0600, Beverly Davis wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm looking for a sponsor for html-xml-utils.  This is a collection of
> > simple command-line utilities developed at the W3C for manipulating HTML
> > and XML files.  (I asked for a sponsor for this on here a while ago, but
> > didn't get one so I'm trying again.  If I'm missing something, please
> > let me know.)
> > 
> > I have prefixed the names of the executables with "hx_" to try to avoid
> > name conflicts (this was in the upstream TODO file).  The package is
> > lintian clean.  I have contacted upstream, and he would be glad to have
> > html-xml-utils available as a Debian package.
> 
> May I interpreter that as
> 
>   "Upstream as included the hx_ prefix also"
> 
> ?

No, he hasn't done that yet.  I went ahead and did it though because
otherwise some of them would have rather common sounding names, such as
"extract", "index", and "count".  Is this a problem?  What should I do?

Thanks,
Beverly

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