Saxon/Xalan extensions written by Norman Walsh for docbook-xsl

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Dienstag, den 27.02.2007, 10:33 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert:
> Am Dienstag, den 27.02.2007, 10:06 +0100 schrieb Marcus Better:
> > [moving discussion to debian-java list]
> 
> Ok. I'm not subscribed to the debian-java list, so please include a CC
> to my address if answering from this list

I'm subscribed now, so no need for CCs.

> > Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > 
> > > I wanted to ask what you guys think about creating a package for just
> > > the extensions Norman Walsh wrote for docbook-xsl. The Java-classes can
> > > be found at
> > > http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/trunk/xsl/extensions/.
> > > Do you see a way to package them?
> > 
> > Seems to be possible. The build files are for Netbeans, but it shouldn't be
> > a big problem. Is there a released tarball somewhere, or is it just in svn?
> 
> Just in SVN. There is no source-tarball. These Java-classes are
> processed during docbook-xsl tarball creation (see Debian bug #331661:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331661). If these
> Java-classes could be overhanded to the java-pkg team or a good
> maintainer, this would be very nice.

Update: The docbook-xsl upstream is willing to release a separate
(source-)tarball for the extension Java classes (maybe as
docbook-xsl-java?).

Regards, Daniel