Jing and Trang

Some time back I fell foul of a bug in Java 1.4 with respect to date and time. George from Oxygen pointed out this, and indicated he'd fixed it in his copy. I foolishly picked up the source and tried to compile it against java 1.5. It fixed the date time bug, but I had lots of errors with enumerations called enum, then dozens of generics which weren't typed. Eventually I resolved all these and now have a version of Jing which is happy with Java 1.5. I even extended it to make use of Schematron thanks to Henri S and his code.

This last weekend I ran foul of a real bug in Trang. There's a namespace fixup needed when using xml:space and or xml:lang. Again thanks to George who'd found it. Again I built it using Java 1.5. James Clarks code is so good it seems a shame that it isn't being hosted longer term, being kept up to date etc. It's certainly unique to my knowledge and very very useful.

For those interested in DSDL class validation, see Oxygen site, where you can find an NVDL implementation built on Jing.