Re: [stellation-res] Which Xerces?

[Dave Shields <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:16:10PM +0100, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> On 04-12-2002 19:01, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> 
> > For the plugins, I would like to depend on the XML4J that comes with
> > Eclipse. For a standalone version, we have to figure out to what version of
> > Xerces the XML4J 4.0.7 corresponds.
> 
> But in the end, the most important thing is not to use any direct Xerces
> class, but go through the JAXP layer. Whatever parser is put behind JAXP is
> not our concern. So far, I have had good results with swapping XML parsers
> behind JAXP.
> 

We might want to do this once things stabilize a bit. Configuring XML parsers
is tricky, and we currently need to support both Xerces and JDOM, though hopefully
use of JDOM can be phased out soon.

dave

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Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.