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<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>I'd like to help out if possible. I'm a commiter on Apache's XML project
(FOP mostly), so I know Java, PDF, XML, XSL:T, XSL:FO and other fun acronyms. I
don't know python, but I've been meaning to learn it anyway. It's been a while
since I used C++. <SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wrote
java stuff using CORBA when the first java bindings were available, but never in
C++, and way before GNOME.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to help in
whatever way, but I have a </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial size=2>an idea for taking two XML
files (and DTDs) and using them figure out what a generic XSL:T file would be to
translate between the two, so you can edit one and XSL:T it to the other. I've
got some scripts that do a half-way decent job of that now. I dunno if that
would be helpful to Piper, but I thought I'd offer.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial size=2>So basically "I'm a
clueless newbie that should be able to figure things out reasonably fast". :)
What would you like me to do?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial
size=2>-Steve</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358542717-05102000><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. The graphical
pipe concept is the most fascinating part to me. The distributed network stuff
is cool too, but not as exciting.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>