CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: OASIS XSLT/XPATH CONFORMANCE MAILING LIST

[Norbert Mikula <Norbert@DataChannel.com>]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: OASIS XSLT/XPATH CONFORMANCE MAILING LIST

The membership of OASIS is hereby notified that the OASIS Advisory 
Committee on Technical Committees (ACTC) has authorized G. Ken Holman 
(Crane Softwrights Ltd.) to institute a mail list for the purpose of 
organizing an OASIS technical committee to be called XSLT/XPath 
Conformance.  A statement of purpose appears at the end of this message.

All individual and institutional OASIS members and all employees of OASIS 
member organizations are hereby invited to join the new list.  Directions 
for subscribing to the list are given following the statement of purpose.

Discussions on the list will begin 2000-04-17.  At that time, persons who 
have subscribed to the list will be asked to file statements of their 
ability and desire to engage in the work at a level consistent with the 
operation of an OASIS technical committee.  At a date not less than one 
week following the call for affirmations of commitment to the work of the 
proposed committee, a list of those agreeing to the conditions of 
participation will be submitted to the ACTC as prospective members of the 
committee.

Statement of Purpose

The XSLT/XPath Conformance Committee will assemble, document and develop a 
suite of test files and an associated XSLT/XPath Conformance Test 
Report.  This report will be  suitable for use by processors desiring to 
ascertain their adherence to testable statements identified in the W3C XSLT 
1.0 and XPath 1.0 Recommendations.  The deliverables will include both 
human- and machine-legible renditions of the report and a package of 
associated test files.

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Norbert H. Mikula 
Chief Technology Officer/DataChannel
Norbert@DataChannel.com 
Chief Technical Officer/OASIS
Norbert.Mikula@Oasis-Open.org 
DataChannel, 600 108th Avenue NE 9th Floor, Bellevue, WA 98004
Phone: 425.462.1999 Fax: 425.637.1192 <http://www.datachannel.com/>