Re: HTML-Rendering engine written in Java?

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Hi Stephane,

Stephane Meslin-Weber wrote:
> > Subsequent to the XOE 1.0 release, Transvirtual ported it to run on
>
> any
>
> > JVM, but they never released that code (Transvirtual is no longer in
> > business).
>
>
> Just out of curiousity, what's the status of that unreleased code? Has
> the copyright/IP rights for that code been released to the developers or
> is it in the hands of the creditors?

GPL'd according to the COPYING file in 
http://www.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pocketlinux/XOE_1.0/src/xoe/COPYING?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

IP would be with, uh, don't know, I guess whoever owns it now, some 
creditors who lost money on Transvirtual I assume.

> > It did a pretty spiffy job of rendering a lot of difficult web pages,
> > and it was reasonably fast too.
>
>
> Was it in generic Java 1.1 or were there native portions to speed things
> up?

They seem to have used html tidy to parse the document. I'd use JTidy in 
a HTML parser SPI, of course ;) I haven't browsed the other code.

cheers,
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