Ok, that's not very detailed, but in short here is how it
all worked:
1 - needed something with the capabilities of mod-xslt :)
2 - couldn't really find one
3 - took Philipp Dunkel mod-xslt (version 1.??), formerly
available at www.mod-xslt.com (at the time, it was
down) and sourceforge.net/projets/mod-xslt
4 - started adding the few functionalities needed, with
the idea to provide back a patch to the author,
even if the project seemed unmaintained.
5 - ended up rewriting the _whole_ code.
6 - I thought it was not nice to send back a patch like
that upstream, so renamed the module in mod_yaslt,
Yet Another xSLT module, and started working on the
documentation.
7 - Since the mod-xslt project seemed still unmaintained, I
contacted the author (Philipp) asking if he minded if I
worked on the project and ended up as a project developer,
promising I would send him my new code (version 1.3.0) in
a very short time with a brand new internet site.
8 - life is sad, it took Marco and me about 9 months to get
the site completed and to release the source code, while
I had estimated something like 2 (yes, we worked on this
on spare time, and in that period we hadn't much spare
time). As part of this job, we renamed everything back
from mod_yaslt to mod_xslt.
9 - in the mean time, I sent no mail to Philipp letting him
know how everything was going (my fault, sorry..), and
he probably thought I had disappeared, and started working
again on mod-xslt, releasing version 2 of the module.
10 - when we were ready to release, we put everything on
www.mod-xslt2.com, and wrote back to him. But probably
it was now late...
11 - I googled the internet one more time, and still found
lots of nice/unmaintained/buggy/never released mod-xslt
projects. So, I contacted each one of the project developers
with the purpose to find some way to join the efforts
working on one same project... many of them didn't
answer, some of them did, but nothing good came out,
while Josh Nutzman and Tom Murray kindly allowed me
to take over their own project on sourceforge, http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/modxslt/.
Now, I believe mod-xslt name is _very_ confusing.
The site is: www.mod-xslt2.com, the sourceforge project
modxslt, .so modules mod_xslt, mxslt_module, and on the
internet you can find almost all of these names as
independent mod-xslt projects (mod-xslt, mod-xslt2,
modxslt, mod_xslt). It would have probably been smarter
to leave the name mod_yaslt...
> BTW, is that project ended?
I have no idea :), think not, since Philipp released some
code on january and the site came back to life with some pages...
Hope to have satisfied your curiosity,
Cheers,
Carlo
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