re: cutting these dependencies
This should be possible because validator works on SAX stream. DOM --> SAX converter is required.
Kohsuke, Do you want to add here ?
I agree that we just need DOM->SAX converter to get rid of the dependency to the identity transformer, and we can certainly do so by copying the relevant code from Xalan.
>In addition there have been modifications made to both XNI and the XML Schema API. Specifically a constructor and a method were added to org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource which handle javax.xml.transform.Source objects. org.apache.xerces.xs.XSTypeDefinition was modified so that it also extends org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo. These changes would make XNI dependent on JAXP and the XML Schema API on DOM Level 3. Though minor changes have been made on occasion, XNI is more or less final. The XML Schema API is a published API [3] which both Xerces-J and Xerces-C++ support. Though it may be possible to make modifications to both of these APIs in Xerces, it seems like the changes were made for convenience and could be replaced without modifying XNI or the XML Schema API.
Kohsuke do you have any opinion on this ?
If it can be replaced without modifying XNI or the XML Schema API, I have no problem.
-- Kohsuke Kawaguchi Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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