ElementState patch (again)

[Brian Thomas <th...@adc.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

	Hi, 

	I am working on a scientific data format for XML, XDF (http://xml.gsfc.nasa.gov/XDF).
	As part of the project, I want to subclass various parts of the DOM object tree to put
	in place various convience methods to access XDF portions of the DOM. I find that
	the way that Xerces (1.4.3 and now 1.4.4) is written prevents this, namely, the ElementState.java
	class doesnt declare its fields to be public. Below I have included a (very simple) patch 
	that will remedy the situation.
	
	The last time I submitted this patch I was resoundingly ignored. Is there a better place
	to submit (short) patches like this, or is there great resistance to making these fields
	public, or was the ball dropped from the last time I submitted the patch?

							Regards,

							-b.t.

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*** ElementState.java.orig      Fri Aug 31 15:22:35 2001
--- ElementState.java   Fri Aug 31 14:34:24 2001
***************
*** 77,146 ****
      /**
       * The element's raw tag name (local or prefix:local).
       */
!     String rawName;
  
  
      /**
       * The element's local tag name.
       */
!     String localName;
  
  
      /**
       * The element's namespace URI.
       */
!     String namespaceURI;
  
  
      /**
       * True if element is space preserving.
       */
!     boolean preserveSpace;
  
  
      /**
       * True if element is empty. Turns false immediately
       * after serializing the first contents of the element.
       */
!     boolean empty;
  
  
      /**
       * True if the last serialized node was an element node.
       */
!     boolean afterElement;
  
  
      /**
       * True if the last serialized node was a comment node.
       */
!     boolean afterComment;
 
  
      /**
       * True if textual content of current element should be
       * serialized as CDATA section.
       */
!     public boolean doCData;
  
  
      /**
       * True if textual content of current element should be
       * serialized as raw characters (unescaped).
       */
!     public boolean unescaped;
  
  
      /**
       * True while inside CData and printing text as CData.
       */
!     public boolean inCData;
  
  
      /**
       * Association between namespace URIs (keys) and prefixes (values).
       */
!     public Hashtable prefixes;
  
  
  }


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