Hi Lyndell, Have you heard of Ohloh? This site has estimated development costs for many open source projects including Xerces [1]. I think it only factors in the current lines of code, rather than all the changes which were made to the codebase to get to that point so I wouldn't say it's that accurate but it might give you some idea of what the lower bound might be if you get everything right from the start.
Thanks. [1] http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3466 Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Harrell Lyndell E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/01/2007 10:52:33 AM: > Would you be so kind as to provide me a rough estimate of the man > hours that expended in developing the XML Parser. > I am interested in an estimate for the entire end product, start to > finish, not for some particular version such as XML4J which was > probably built on existing software. > > My guess is that a lot of work was done open source so it may be > impossible to say with any accuracy closer than +/- 300%. Still, > whatever estimate you would guess would be helpful. We are > considering writing our own XML parser, and it woud be helpful to > know what your experience has been. > > We have another question, please. We have noted that saving an XML > file as an Excel file gets you an Excel file that seems to have been > parsed in some manner. > While I'm sure you agree with us that Excel is a excellent product, > I wonder if you would be willing to comment on the differences > between what XML4J would provide > and what Excel provides for some particular XML file. > > My request is not concerned with me personally, or my personal > software. My employer is the Internal Revenue Service and my inquiry > concerns software we are developing here in house for IRS use. > > Thank you in advance for your response, and please comment in > lenghty detail if you wish to do so. It would be helpful. > Lyndell Harrell > Custodial Accounting > OS:CIO:AD:IM:FS:CU > 202-283-5147, A6-433 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
