"Kevin A. Burton" wrote:
>
> - Why are we using SUN's project XML parser instead of our own dog
> food... namely Xerces? (xml.apache.orx/xerces-j/index.html). The
> ProjectX XML parser isn't open source:
>
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/xml/license.txt
>
> Ant would be totally perfect (from an Open Source perspective) if:
>
> - we can use the Xerces parser
> - we don't need javac.jar
I bet I submitted a patch for Ant wich enables using Xerces as a parser
(did I?)... Anyway I think it would be more appropriate forgetting about
that and waiting for JSR5 (JAXP) to come out. Then we will not have to
care about what parser we're using.
Pier
