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svn commit: r478682 - /xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml
Author: minchau
Date: Thu Nov 23 14:01:01 2006
New Revision: 478682
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=478682
Log:
Applying patch in XALANJ-2270 to make it clearer why
to choose one binary distribution over the other.
Modified:
xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml
Modified: xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml?view=diff&rev=478682&r1=478681&r2=478682
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--- xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml (original)
+++ xalan/java/trunk/xdocs/sources/xalan/downloads.xml Thu Nov 23 14:01:01 2006
@@ -35,15 +35,29 @@
<li>(Optional) Xalan Java source code</li>
<li>(Optional) Packages to support extension functions and elements</li>
</ul>
- <p>There are 2 binary distributions available; you only need to choose one of them.
- Both binary distributions contain xml-apis.jar and &xml4j-jar; from <resource-ref idref="xml4j-used"/>.</p>
+ <p>Xalan-J has two processors,
+ an interpretive one, Xalan Interpretive, and a compiled one, Xalan Compiled (XSLTC).
+ Your choice of which binary distribution to download depends on which
+ of the processors you want to use.
+ There are 2 binary distributions available; you only need to choose one of them.
+ Both binary distributions contain xml-apis.jar and &xml4j-jar; from <resource-ref idref="xml4j-used"/>.</p>
<ul>
<li>The first binary distribution, &xslt4j-dist-bin;.zip or &xslt4j-dist-bin;.tar.gz,
contains the Xalan Interpretive processor, the Xalan Compiled processor (XSLTC) and the
- runtime support packages in a single jar, called xalan.jar. </li><br/><br/>
+ runtime support packages in a single jar, called xalan.jar.
+ The reason to use this distribution would be that you don't know
+ which processor you are going to use, or might be using both.
+ </li><br/><br/>
<li>The second binary distribution, &xslt4j-dist-bin;-2jars.zip or &xslt4j-dist-bin;-2jars.tar.gz
contains the Xalan Interpretive processor in xalan.jar, and the Xalan Compiled
- processor (XSLTC) and the runtime support packages in xsltc.jar. </li>
+ processor (XSLTC) and the runtime support packages in xsltc.jar.
+ The reason to using this distribution is that you want more control.
+ If you are using just XSLTC you can put xsltc.jar on the classpath
+ and not xalan.jar. If you are using just the interpretive processor
+ you can put xalan.jar on the classpath and not xsltc.jar. Of course
+ you can put both xalan.jar and xsltc.jar from this distribution
+ on your classpath if you want to use both.
+ </li>
</ul>
<p>There is an optional source distribution available for doing your own &xslt4j; builds; see
<link idref="readme" anchor="build">Build notes</link>. You can download the source distribution from
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