Hi Mukul, If you're planning on updating xml-apis.jar and its source archive, we'll need to have an XML Commons External release first. It's been a long time since we've had one of those but there should be some instructions on the XML Commons website.
Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Technologies and WAS Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote on 04/16/2018 08:55:34 AM: > Hi all, > As per this link, http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq- > contributing.html#faq-2 (Release Preparation), > > The 1st point says, > "Ensure that the API code has been properly refreshed. That is, make > sure that tools/xml-apis.jar and tools/xml-apis--src.zip reflect the > state of the branch of xml-commons that contains the API set to > which the parser must conform." > (the source archive is, xml-commons-external-src.zip in our SVN, > which is the file name we should use I think). > > To do this, for 2.12.0 release I'm planning to create xml-apis.jar & > xml-commons-external-src.zip from the repository https:// > svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external. I > hope this would be right? > > A related question, is it advisable to use the current files in SVN > tools/xml-apis.jar & tools/xml-commons-external-src.zip for 2.12.0 > release, instead of preparing new archives from https:// > svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external? I > can see check-ins to https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml- > commons/trunk/java/external, after 2.11.0 release. > > If we have to prepare the mentioned API archives, from https:// > svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/xml-commons/trunk/java/external, I > think XML commons version for 2.12.0 release will be XML Commons > External 1.4.02? > > Thanks for any answers. > > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi
