+1, note that we are not going to get rid of it anytime soon since it's used a lot but it's good we officially don't use it more
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > Thanks, > Marius > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
