Re: [PROPOSAL/VOTE] Digester Package

[Craig R. McClanahan]

Sorry, didn't notice one other thing:

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Scott Sanders wrote:

> [snip]
> (1.5) Interaction With Other Packages
> 
> Digester relies on:
> 
>   * Java Development Kit (Version 1.2 or later)
>   * Simple API for XML (SAX) (Version 2.0 or later)
>   * A SAX 2.0 compliant XML parser (Xerces, XP, etc.)
> 

As it currently exists in Struts, the reliance is really on JAXP/1.0 (and
therefore SAX 1.0).  The underlying APIs are included in SAX 2.0 but are
deprecated.

There's been a little talk on the Struts lists about updating to JAXP/1.1
(i.e. basing Digester on SAX 2.0).  Now that there are at least two
implementations of this (the JAXP/1.1 RI and Xerces 1.3), I'm not opposed
to updating -- if we are willing to require a JAXP/1.1 parser for use of
this package.

It might be a trifle early in terms of availability of parsers, but
switching now (before anyone builds code based on the Commons version of
Digester) probably makes sense.


Craig