Re: Volunteers: First Cut

[Stephane Hillion <hi...@apache.org>]

On Tuesday 06 March 2001 02:19, Sam Ruby wrote:
> Ted Leung wrote:
> > I'd like to see someone from Batik and Xang.
>
> Something I'm not sure everyone here is aware of: while Batik uses JAXP (a
> good thing), it hard codes explicit references to the crimson parser
> (whatever parser you prefer, hopefully everyone agrees that such early
> binding is unfortunate).  Perhaps someone could volunteer to help show the
> Batik project how to become parser independent?

All the references to crimson we have are constant string references to the 
parser class name. These strings are in the source code because we are in 
beta version and all the resource files have not been created yet.

We will try to fix this for the 1.0 version we plan to release next month.

BTW I used Xalan 1.2.1 in Batik to perform some XSL stuff and it was 
impossible to change the DOM implementation since explicit references to 
Xerces are present everywhere. Too bad..
--
  Stephane Hillion.