Maggot Brain

FOSDEM 2007, CFP

If you have an idea what you would like to do in or around the Mozilla Developers Room at FOSDEM 2007, please add that to the wiki. In particular, if you want to present something, that’d be good to know early, so that folks tempted to attend know what they miss out on if they don’t.

PS: No Papers required, just Participation.

entity lookup and fallback in expat

As there were more people talking about this than I recall, here’s the public correction on what I though would be true:

1. I see no way to hook into expat to make it resolve an entity. See the XML_TOK_ENTITY_REF handling in xmlparse.c.
2. We can redefine entities. I’m not exactly sure on how the brand.dtd-inclusion in the neterror overrides will like this, yet.

Does hacking the chrome protocol to concat the DTD files for all available locales sound like a good idea?

And I wonder if we can revisit the XML_ERROR_UNDEFINED_ENTITY in xmlparse.c to just notify us, so that we could whine in the error console without busting.

Statemachine compiler suggestions, anyone?

I’m looking for code that generates statemachines in different languages from a single source. I peek at SMC, but I’m sure there’s more. I’m looking for js, python, C/C++ output. Even more so, it should be kind-of simple to understand the syntax, and lightweight-ish to run.