On 10 Jun 2015 at 21:45:30, Sergiu Dumitriu ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> +1 for removing DOM4J, it's been dead for 10 years. > > But why do we need a non w3c library at all? Why is JDOM better than DOM? > > The main reason is that it is supposedly easier to use for Java > programmers, but is it that much easier to justify having different > APIs? The standard DOM is part of the Java language. The DOM API was complex enough that several people created frameworks providing alternatives. JDOM is one. That says a lot to me :) And indeed I find it easy to use. Ok so I’ changing the proposal from use JDOM2 to not using DOM4J. If a dev in XWiki needs to manipulate an XML structure he should use one of: * The W3C DOM API * JDOM2 (or XStream, Stax, etc. Note that JDOM is not an XML parser, it uses available JAXP parser) Thanks -Vincent > On 06/10/2015 11:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > I’d like to propose that we agree about: > > * using JDOM2 when needing to parse/output XML files > > * moving away existing code gradually from DOM4J to JDOM2 > > > > Rationale: > > * It would be nice to pick one fwk and have more consistency > > * DOM4J seems not maintained anymore: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/files/ > > * JDOM2 seems maintained: http://jdom.org/news/ > > > > WDYT? > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
