I was browsing the repositories and found the xml-contrib module which
contains 2 subprojects : crimson and spinnaker. Reading through the README
of spinnaker I learnt that it was an effort (seems driven by James Duncan
Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) to rewrite an XML parser, learning from past
experiences with Xerces and Crimson.
The part related to jakarta-commons that I found interesting is the
following excerpt from the README :
"
[snip]
PLAN OF RECORD:
In order to bootstrap what is essentially intended to be a full
refactoring of what an XML parser is, the following is a list of
checkpoints that we would like to hit.
* Factor out of utility classes from both the Xerces and Crimson
source bases. There is a *lot* of good work in both these
codebases on things like decoders which are faster than Java's
Reader classes. This is actually a start at an Apache wide class
library set, but we're going to do it here first. :) This
classes will be put into the package org.apache.auc.* (AUC
stands for Apache Utility Classes).
* Determine what the modular API looks like. What are the various
peices that can be factored out. During this process it is
expected that we'll have some API stub code checked in.
[snip]
"
Does anyone know of this Apache Utility Classes (org.apache.auc.*) or about
the Spinnaker project ? Is there any chance to gather the utility classes in
jakarta-commons ? The README is dated 2000/07/08 so it is not that new ...
Is it still maintained ?
Thanks.
Vincent Massol.
