Re: DSSSL for the Java Virtual Machine (SENG)

[Daniel Mahler <dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Brandon,

>    I spoke to Alex a couple of times, some months ago.  He didn't
> indicate any specific plans for SENG, but seemed to say that the
> company he's working with now (which basically acquired Copernican's
> R&D resources, mainly Alex himself, and got rid of their consulting
> business) may have some plans for it.

If there are no plans develop it,
it would be nice if SENG could become public.
It sounded like too good an idea to let die.
We could have OpenSENG to go with OpenJade.


>    I believe SENG was left with having a mostly complete style
> language, but only one backend which spits out some kind of
> representation of an FOT.  So, no actual formatted output.  I'm not
> sure SENG was ever really meant to be a complete DSSSL environment in
> ready-to-use form like Jade, but more as a framework for creating
> DSSSL-based applications.

That is pretty much what I am in the market for.

>    I was sad to see SENG get left behind, too, especially as there
> were indications that it was going to include a transformation
> language implementation, as well.  In fact, I believe Alex once told
> me that Henry Thompson was somehow involved in that.  Of course,
> Henry's own project is to include that at some point, as well.  Any
> word on that Henry?  (I know I already bugged you about this in
> private, but since I didn't hear back, now I'm going public! :)

Actually I am not familiar with Henry's project.
Could you give me a pointer?

> 
> -Brandon :)
> 
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