Proposal Draft for SoC: XPath and DOM Selectors

Hello everybody.
        I've been working in my proposal for this GSoC. I'm about to post it but I
wanted to let everyone have a look and criticize it :). Specially Maks
Orlovich since he appears as the proposed mentor in the SoC Techbase page.
        Carlos

[Abstract]
With the crescent usage of the javascript applications in the web, the more
recommendations you can implement the more interoperability you'll get across
different browsers. This proposal involves the implementation of the proper
interfaces for the XPath DOM 3, which is in essence a javascript API for r
XPath; and the DOM Selectors recommendations.

[Content]
Name:
Carlos Licea

Email Address:
carlos.licea@...

Freenode IRC Nick:
Carutsu

Location (City, Country and/or Time Zone):
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. GMT-7

Proposal Name:
Implementing the XPath DOM Level 3 and DOM Selectors specifications

Motivation for Proposal / Goal:
Implement the most recent standars for my favorite web browser. As can be read
in the summary, and in title, the goal of this project would be implementing
the required functionality so that KHTML can properly, and as fast as
possible, execute the most recent XPath DOM Level 3 funcions and Selectors
that would enable KHTML to run the, likely, next generation of the Web
applications.

Implementation Details:
I'm not properly aware of the KHTML internals and as such this is moustly a
guess:

First the needed functions should be created inside the internals of KHTML.
Those should behave and be named following the W3C recommendations. Proper
unity test should be written so that it can be proben that the functions
behave as expected during the SoC and ensure that the behavior is not modified
in future changes. Later on, the appropiate bindigs to the JavaScript language
should be made.

Finally, speed ups should be made, with the test making sure that no
regresions have been done.

Tentative Timeline:
<I'm not sure how to proceed here since I lack the appropiate knowloadge of
the KHTML's internals, and as such I'm not sure exactly which tasks and
exactly how long they'll take, I might maka a rough, and really just a guess,
estimate according to what I believe it could be. What do you think?>

Do you have other obligations from late May to early August (school, work,
etc.)?:
No that I know yet. I might get a part time job, but I still don't really
know. In any case I can easily put 28-30 hours per week in the project.

About Me (let us know who you are!):
My name is Carlos Licea, I'm 21 years old and I've been involved with Open
Source Software since 2006. I've participed with two other Succesful GSoC
projects, for the Marble and KOffice teams: "Implementing 2D projection for
Marble" and "Creating a Filter for KPR to ODF files" respectively. Thanks to
those great ptojects I have much more experience in how the development of the
FOSS application occurs.

Finally I should state that I like Konqueror, and hence KHTML, so much that I
wanted to get involved in it for quite some time. The final reason why I was
drawn to this project is because it doesn't involve UI which I find either
boring or hard to get right.

[Harri Porten]

Hello Carlos,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Carlos Licea wrote:

> I've been working in my proposal for this GSoC. I'm about to post it but I
> wanted to let everyone have a look and criticize it :).

The proposal looks good to me. Please submit it via the Google web form so
that it can be considered.

Harri.