Getting XMLBeans out of Attic

Hi list,

I am a long-time user of XMLBeans, most of the time as part of the 
BPELUnit project. There is no replacement to XMLBeans because in 
contrast to JAXB if preserves namespace declarations so you e.g. read 
and write XML document that contain XPath expressions (e.g. BPEL, BPMN2, 
...).

Although I know XMLBeans only from the user perspective, I would 
contribute to it, which includes learning more of its internals, apply 
the outstanding patches, test them and so on.

As far as I understand the Apache rules a project needs to have a 
working PMC. This means at least 3 people (for substitution 4 or 5 would 
be better) which vote on releases. I also would join a new PMC if 3 
other would be willing to join me and at least build regular 
maintainance releases to keep this project alive and reboot its PMC.

I know that many other projects use XMLBeans, e.g. Apache Camel, Apache 
CXX Apache ODE, ... and many non-Apache projects, too. So I hope that we 
can find enough interested people to keep this project alive.

If you are one of them, please reply to this list. If we are enough 
people, I would try to talk to the Apache Foundation.

Regards,
Daniel