+1 to moving the future versions to 1.4, it sounds like it's the right
time for that now, especially with the Schema differences. It would be
helpful to have one last release using 1.3 with a big notice on the
homepage so people are prepared.
And I agree overall with Michael about sticking with 1.4 and not jumping
ahead; Xerces is at the core of a *lot* of software, and there are
plenty of people maintaining and updating apps on older versions of
software built atop the ASF XML stack.
Thanks,
- Shane
Michael Glavassevich wrote:
Hi all,
(including general@xml.apache.org on the cc list to hopefully reach a
wider audience)
We're talking again on the Xerces j-dev mailing list about dropping
support for JDK 1.3. The reason being that current builds of the XPath
2.0 processor (Eclipse PsychoPath) used by the XML Schema 1.1
implementation require JDK 1.4. While we do have a one-off PsychoPath
jar that was built with JDK 1.3 some time ago, in order to pick up
recent bug fixes in this library we need to refresh it with the JDK 1.4
version. This would only impact the XML Schema 1.1 enabled release for
now but at some point in the future when XML Schema 1.1 becomes stable
(both spec and impl) this would get merged into the main line.
Given the age of JDK 1.3 and that it's generally out of service my
intuition is that this upgrade would probably be okay but wanted to
check with users on their needs. Is there anyone out there still using
Xerces-J with JDK 1.3? If you are, how long into the future will you
continue to do so, and would you be willing to migrate to JDK 1.4 (or
higher) to be able to use XML Schema 1.1?
Thanks.
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
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