----- Original Message ----- From: "Harikrishna Neerkaje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > As per the comparisons shown between various XML Object Models on your site > it appears that dom4j is the best available. > If this is the case why is dom4j not being pushed in the JCP as a jsr > instead of jdom.
Good question. The JDOM JSR is essentially an attempt to use the JCP process to manage the already existing JDOM open source project. So its not really an attempt to put together a standard API for working with XML on the Java platform per se - its just a 'process' for the JDOM project to manage itself. e.g. noone from the DOM, dom4j or EXML worlds gets a voice on the JDOM JSR - its just for the JDOM people & project only, so its not a 'Java platform standard' like JAXP or JSP which take a cross section of experts from the industry. > What the java community needs is the best XML Object model as the standard > one so that all developers can make use of it. > Why are you not trying to get dom4j into the jcp process especially > considering there is already a stable release out for dom4j and not so for > jdom. > > I have nothing much for or against either. I would just like to see the jcp > adopt a fair process of picking the best possible object model for adopting > it into the standard java tree. I totally agree. Though I'm not sure if this will happen. There's already 4 APIs, DOM, dom4j, EXML and JDOM. I'm not sure if it is gonna be possible (due to political & religous reasons) to unite under a common, standard API. It would be nice though! For example the JAXM API could derive from it if there was a standard, interface based API. James _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
