From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi folks, > > No confusion would have arisen, of course, if somebody at maven hadn't > decided to rename xmlParserAPIs (or reformat xml-apis). Does anyone have > contacts in the maven world who could straighten this out?
Yes - I'll try sort this out. I'll ensure that all the xml-apis.jar versions are actually full copies of JAXP. (Probably by just replacing any dodgy copies with the latest that ships with Xalan) > Personally, I believe that were Xerces to start shipping the transform > interfaces, confusion would simply migrate from lists like this to Xerces > lists... In the final analysis there's no way to demonstrate this one way > or the other except by trying the experiment--and then there's no way back. > So unless there were some really compelling reason to change, I for one > wouldn't want to see Xerces change in the near future. > > But there are lots of other xerces committers. :) If folks want to lobby, > xerces-j-dev is the place to go. Just having confirmation that xml-apis.jar should always have a full JAXP is enough for me to move on - many thanks everyone, my mind is now at rest. However, while we're talking about it... I'm sure having both xmlParserAPIs.jar and xml-apis.jar used by Xerces + Xalan could well confuse folks out there though I totally understand the Xerces communities reasoning for doing it. I can well imagine some poor soul out there with both xml-apis.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar along with another assorted bunch of jars on their classpath in some web application then having class loading problems. Maybe this could be a FAQ entry somewhere: * If you need an XSLT engine, you must use xml-apis.jar and don't need xmlParserAPIs.jar. Indeed having both of them on your class path could cause problems. * If you don't need XSLT and just need XML parsing, you only need xmlParserAPIs.jar though having xml-apis.jar would work too. I think I'd recommend general XML users to just use xml-apis.jar and forget about xmlParserAPIs.jar that comes with Xerces unless you really know what you're doing. James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
