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Posted to general@xml.apache.org by Davanum Srinivas <di...@yahoo.com> on 2001/12/01 15:06:29 UTC
Re: [xerces2] info about some packaging changes
Neil,
Agreed. My concern was that we should update when we think it is right...There should not be
artificial constraints to restrain us.
Thanks,
dims
--- neilg@ca.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi Dims,
>
> Just to make sure there's no possibility of confusion: No version of
> Xerces builds xml-apis.jar. Xerces2 builds an API jar file that contains a
> subset of the APIs represented in xml-apis.jar, and it gives that jar a
> different name (xmlParserAPIs.jar for now) to make absolutely sure users
> know what it's for.
>
> As to what's stored in xml-commons: my preference would be for us to wait
> until DOM level 3 reaches a more stable level and SAX 2.0 finally reaches
> r2 before deciding what to do. I suspect it probably will make sense to
> upgrade the API's in xml-commons at that point, but once we get there we'll
> have a better view of the lay of the land; no sense in deciding that while
> these API's are still in beta or working draft.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
> Neil Graham
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519
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>
>
>
> Davanum Srinivas <di...@yahoo.com> on 11/30/2001 07:53:16 AM
>
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> Shane, Edwin,
>
> #1: I think xml-apis.jar should contain the same thing whether it is built
> by Xalan project or
> Xerces Project.
>
> #2: My vote is to include latest DOM and SAX Standards (Not necessarily
> J2EE-1.3 compatible). We
> cannot and should not stop moving forward just because SUN picked up a
> snapshot to bundle with
> J2EE.
>
> Thanks,
> dims
>
> --- Edwin Goei <ed...@sun.com> wrote:
> > Shane_Curcuru@lotus.com wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > I.e. to me the point is that we're agreeing to ship *stable*
> > > externally-defined standards-based files in a jar named xml-apis.jar.
> Any
> > > other files a project wants to use should go in their implementation
> jar,
> > > or somewhere else; and the xml-apis.jar should always include it's full
> > > contents, and should match very closely (except for last-minute
> bugfixes)
> > > the same code as in xml-commons.
> > >
> > > Am I making any sense? Does anyone else agree with me? (Note, they're
> > > separate questions!) One other important issue is we should have some
> > > manifest packaging expert help us all implement some better documented
> and
> > > finely-grained versioning info in our manifests; I've started in
> > > xml-xalan/java/src/MANIFEST.MF but it needs updating and I'm not sure
> I've
> > > gotten it quite right yet.
> >
> > I think there are some more involved issue here. JAXP APIs involve both
> > a parser and XSLT processor so there needs to be some coordination
> > between projects which may be difficult to achieve so that a single
> > xml-apis.jar file from xml-commons can be produced. As it is now, it
> > looks like Xalan has an xml-apis.jar file but it only contains the
> > javax.xml.transform classes.
> >
> > Also, there are issues w/ which version of the standard to include in
> > xml-apis.jar. I posted some emails on this on xerces-j-dev recently and
> > about whether to support the latest versions of standards or some people
> > want ones that are J2EE 1.3 compatible, for example.
> >
> > I don't have any answers, though.
> >
> > -Edwin
> >
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