Hi everyone, With the Xerces 2.8.0 release out of the way, I would like to propose that we begin work on JAXP 1.4 [1][2] (which is nearing finalization). For those who haven't been following its development, JAXP 1.4 is a minor update to JAXP 1.3; the largest technical change being the addition of StAX (JSR 173) [3] and new Source/Result classes (see the javax.xml.transform.stax package) which can be used with transformers and validators. It is being included in Java SE 6.0.
Depending on how much interest there is and how much time people have it might take several releases to complete an implementation in Xerces. If you'd like to see a complete StAX implementation sooner rather than later, and you're interested in contributing to Xerces, here's a great opportunity to work on an important piece. In the meantime so that Xerces comes with StAX support out of the box, the distribution could include an implementation which is known to pass the TCK (and is available under an acceptable license [4]). It would be replaced by the Xerces implementation once it's complete. Thoughts? Thanks. [1] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/spec/html/ [2] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/ [3] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=173 [4] http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html#category-a Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
