Hi Chris, On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:02 +0000, Chris Burdess wrote: > Arguably, if we change the name we lose any benefit of being able to > plug in a 3rd party datatype library implementation. It would be > trivial to duplicate just the part of the API we need in a private > namespace and use that for our own providers, but we would only be > able to use our own implementation. > > My primary reason for including this API is that it is the current > standard API. I believe that much as with JAXP itself, free software > benefits by being able to interface with alternate implementations, > to provide more choice and facilitate testing.
OK. Which other free datatype library implementations are there? Cheers, Mark
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