Xerces 2.4.0 and Xalan Compatibility

[Danielle Vella <Da...@entrust.com>]

Hi,
 
I need to package both Xerces and Xalan with my application.  I just
upgraded to from Xerces 1.4.4 to 2.4.0 and noticed that xml-apis.jar is
included.  The Xalan version I'm using is 2.2.D14.  My questions are as
follows: 1) Is it necessary to upgrade my Xalan version? 2) Should I be
picking up xml-apis.jar from Xerces, as opposed to Xalan? 
 
Thanks.
 

Re: Xerces 2.4.0 and Xalan Compatibility

[Michael Rafael Glavassevich <mr...@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

Hi Danielle,

I believe the Xalan team recommends that versions of Xalan be kept in
synch with the version of Xerces that Xalan was tested with. Xalan-J
2.5.0 was tested with Xerces-J 2.4.0, so that's likely the version you'd
want.

In theory xml-apis.jar should be the same throughout all of Apache XML.
For Xerces, this jar is built from XML commons. I believe Xalan does the
same, but if you want to be safe you can download Xalan 2.5.0 from
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html. It should come with everything
you need including Xerces 2.4.0.

Hope that helps.

-----------------------------
Michael Glavassevich
mrglavas@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
4B Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Danielle Vella wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to package both Xerces and Xalan with my application.  I just
> upgraded to from Xerces 1.4.4 to 2.4.0 and noticed that xml-apis.jar is
> included.  The Xalan version I'm using is 2.2.D14.  My questions are as
> follows: 1) Is it necessary to upgrade my Xalan version? 2) Should I be
> picking up xml-apis.jar from Xerces, as opposed to Xalan?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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