Re: Thoughts on deprecating the Xalan-J XPath API?

[Santiago Pericas-Geertsen <Sa...@Sun.COM>]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Henry Zongaro wrote:

> Hello.
>
>      The Xalan-J project has three XPath APIs:  the JAXP XPath API, 
> [1] the
> DOM Level 3 XPath API,[2,3] and the processor-specific Xalan-J XPath
> API.[4,5]
>
>      The Xalan-J XPath API filled a need, as it existed before any
> standard specification for an XPath API was available.  Now that  
> JCP has
> defined a standard Java XPath API and the W3C has given a strong
> indication of the form of a DOM XPath API (though not a  
> recommendation),
> it might be time to deprecate the Xalan-J XPath API.  I'd like to  
> solicit
> any views for or against the idea.

  +1 on the deprecation of this API. Thanks.

-- Santiago