I'd like to make some research this evening (CET) to provide some more thought-through comments. In the meantime I'd like to point out a few things: - Thanks, Jörg, for starting this. I'm in favor of redesigning the API. - I don't believe we will be able to finalize the API this week. There's too much to think about. - I'm not sure if we should change the API in the maintenance branch. Breaking backwards-compatibility produces and deprecating old interfaces and classes is not so popular, usually. - Avalon scares some people. JAXP is a good example of a pretty good API that is easy to use. I'm strongly for providing a simple API for easy use that is as similar as possible with JAXP and has as little dependencies on Avalon as possible (only exception: logging, I think). On the other side, I'm strongly for using Avalon (what a surprise), which means that the simple API IMO should be a wrapper around the Avalon-based API. It should be relatively easy to hide the Avalon stuff. - The simple API will (probably) not have all the possibilities of the Avalon-based API, to keep things as simple as possible. - We should gather some more requirements for the API and hold them in a design paper. - We should provide easy integration into Cocoon preferably using some of their components (resolver, parser factories etc.). Some of them have been moved to Avalon Excalibur, so we don't have dependecies into Cocoon, only Avalon. We probably have to work closely with the Cocoon and Avalon people. This also reduces the common codebase and maintenance effort and improves stability. - If we go the two-API-way we have to decide what to provide in the simple interface. - I'd like to work more with MIME-types for specifying the output format instead of subclassing a class for each output format. This may help to reduce dependencies. Ok, got to get back to work. More to come...
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