Gavin McKenzie's XML libraries

[1/6] from: brianwisti::yahoo::com at: 27-Dec-2004 16:00

Hi all, After a whole heck of a lot of poking, prodding, and begging on Google.com, I was able to find a copy of Gavin McKenzie's XML parsing libraries. They don't appear to be in the rebol.org script library. Would it be okay for me to upload them? I don't intend to take ownership of them or anything like that (although I might make my own tweaked version later), but I would like to make them available at a major outlet such as the script library. I wouldn't even ask if these were my files, but they aren't, and I don't really know what terms Gavin made them available under. Kind Regards, Brian Wisti http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/rebol/

[2/6] from: greggirwin::mindspring::com at: 27-Dec-2004 17:32

Re: [XML] Gavin McKenzie's XML libraries

Hi Brian, BW> ...Gavin McKenzie's XML parsing libraries. They don't appear to be BW> in the rebol.org script library. Would it be okay for me to upload BW> them? I'm not sure why they aren't there. Send him an email to see what he thinks and, if you get no response, I'd say you could put them on REBOL.org. We would remove them at his request of course. The copy I have here is pretty old (0.7.2 from September 2001). No license listed in that version. BW> I wouldn't even ask if these were my files, but they aren't, and I BW> don't really know what terms Gavin made them available under. If you haven't already, you might also want to check out: http://earl.strain.at/space/rebXR -- Gregg

[3/6] from: SunandaDH::aol::com at: 28-Dec-2004 9:53

Re: Gavin McKenzie's XML libraries

Brian:

> After a whole heck of a lot of poking, prodding, and begging on > Google.com, I was able to find a copy of Gavin McKenzie's XML parsing > libraries. They don't appear to be in the rebol.org script library.

Gavin's stuff is tough to find isn't it? I tried to track it down myself a couple of months ago. Found it in a PDF -- as an appendix to an academic paper. There are loads and loads of excellent but lost, or hard to find, REBOl scripts around. Peter Wood and I have a list of useful scripts embedded in ML posts. Also, there are loads of good things in the now ex-REBOL Altme world. All those scripts are, in effect, lost to the wider REBOL community. I *doubt* that is what the owners' would have wanted. But, without further confirmation from them, I'd personally wouldn't add someone else's work to the REBOL.org Library -- tempting though that is. What we need is an occasional Library volunteer who has the time (and, more useful, the tenacity) to track down the owners of these little gems and seek permission to republish them in the Library. It's on my list of things to do. But in my case, it isn't likely to happen in any year containing a 4 or a 5. If someone has got the time to give this a go, please let me know, Thanks! Sunanda

[4/6] from: gabriele::colellachiara::com at: 29-Dec-2004 16:09

Hi SunandaDH, On Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 3:53:20 PM, you wrote: Sac> What we need is an occasional Library volunteer who has the time (and, more Sac> useful, the tenacity) to track down the owners of these little gems and seek Sac> permission to republish them in the Library. BTW, you (and anyone else :) have my permission to upload to the library anything I posted here or somewhere else that didn't have any specific license attached. (When a script I write doesn't have a license, you can assume it is public domain.) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila --- SOON: http://www.rebol.it/

[5/6] from: hallvard:ystad:oops-as:no at: 30-Dec-2004 21:37

Dixit [SunandaDH--aol--com] (15.53 28.12.2004):

>Brian: > >> After a whole heck of a lot of poking, prodding, and begging on >> Google.com, I was able to find a copy of Gavin McKenzie's XML parsing >> libraries. They don't appear to be in the rebol.org script library. > >Gavin's stuff is tough to find isn't it? I tried to track it down myself a >couple of months ago. Found it in a PDF -- as an appendix to an academic paper.

If it wasn't for http://web.archive.org/robots.txt, you would probably find http://web.archive.org/web/20030411094732/www3.sympatico.ca/gavin.mckenzie/ in the RIX. (I found it on rebol.org.) Hallvard

[6/6] from: andreas:bolka:gmx at: 28-Dec-2004 13:40

Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 1:00:48 AM, Brian wrote:

> After a whole heck of a lot of poking, prodding, and begging on > Google.com, I was able to find a copy of Gavin McKenzie's XML > parsing libraries.

A copy of the most "recent" version (0.7.4 of %xml-parse.r and 1.0.4 of %xml-object.r) is bundled with rebXR: http://earl.strain.at/space/rebXR -- Best regards, Andreas