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Posted to j-dev@xerces.apache.org by Michael Glavassevich <mr...@ca.ibm.com> on 2006/03/29 00:31:29 UTC
[PROPOSAL]: Add support for JAXP 1.4 to Xerces-J
Hi everyone,
With the Xerces 2.8.0 release out of the way, I would like to propose that
we begin work on JAXP 1.4 [1][2] (which is nearing finalization). For
those who haven't been following its development, JAXP 1.4 is a minor
update to JAXP 1.3; the largest technical change being the addition of
StAX (JSR 173) [3] and new Source/Result classes (see the
javax.xml.transform.stax package) which can be used with transformers and
validators. It is being included in Java SE 6.0.
Depending on how much interest there is and how much time people have it
might take several releases to complete an implementation in Xerces. If
you'd like to see a complete StAX implementation sooner rather than later,
and you're interested in contributing to Xerces, here's a great
opportunity to work on an important piece. In the meantime so that Xerces
comes with StAX support out of the box, the distribution could include an
implementation which is known to pass the TCK (and is available under an
acceptable license [4]). It would be replaced by the Xerces implementation
once it's complete.
Thoughts?
Thanks.
[1] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/spec/html/
[2] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/
[3] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=173
[4] http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html#category-a
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
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Re: [PROPOSAL]: Add support for JAXP 1.4 to Xerces-J
Posted by Michael Glavassevich <mr...@apache.org>.
Hi Lucian,
That's excellent!
We're just getting the ball rolling in XML Commons [1] to upgrade the API
sources from JAXP 1.3 to 1.4. There are a few issues which need to be
worked out before that happens, but that doesn't prevent development
from beginning here. There's certainly lots to do and help is very much
welcome.
Thanks.
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-commons-dev&m=114358595221519&w=2
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Lucian Holland wrote:
> Michael Glavassevich wrote:
>> Depending on how much interest there is and how much time people have it
>> might take several releases to complete an implementation in Xerces. If
>> you'd like to see a complete StAX implementation sooner rather than later,
>> and you're interested in contributing to Xerces, here's a great opportunity
>> to work on an important piece.
> Michael,
>
> I would be interested in helping out with this, if that would be of any help
> to you. Over the next couple of weeks I'm a bit maxed out, but after that I
> should have a certain amount of time that I'd happily contribute. While I
> haven't contributed any features to the codebase in the past, I have been
> digging around in the guts of Xerces-J for a couple of years now! Considering
> how much value we've got out of it I'd love to be able to give something
> back...
>
> Lucian
>
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Re: [PROPOSAL]: Add support for JAXP 1.4 to Xerces-J
Posted by Lucian Holland <le...@decisionsoft.co.uk>.
Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> Depending on how much interest there is and how much time people have it
> might take several releases to complete an implementation in Xerces. If
> you'd like to see a complete StAX implementation sooner rather than later,
> and you're interested in contributing to Xerces, here's a great
> opportunity to work on an important piece.
Michael,
I would be interested in helping out with this, if that would be of any
help to you. Over the next couple of weeks I'm a bit maxed out, but
after that I should have a certain amount of time that I'd happily
contribute. While I haven't contributed any features to the codebase in
the past, I have been digging around in the guts of Xerces-J for a
couple of years now! Considering how much value we've got out of it I'd
love to be able to give something back...
Lucian
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DecisionSoft Limited http://www.decisionsoft.com
XML Development and Services
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