Michael P. McCutcheon wrote:
Curious, do you know if the new X3D stuff have anything equivalent to the DOMToJ3D utility?
There is no direct equivalent because JAXP now gives you a different way of looking at it. To do so, we make use of the transformation classes, and then use the output SAX stream to build the scene graph. This kills many birds with one stone for us:
- Single code path for all XML-derived input - Same scene graph build process regardless of source file encoding - XSLT handled transparently - Any arbitrary DOM handled transparently If you're using the DOMtoJ3D class then you're probably already doing a lot of other custom stuff in there. Have a look at the code for XSLTViewer that is now in examples/browser. It uses a stream source and then the transformation classes to transform the arbitrary XML file into X3D using XSLT. If you use a null transformer with a DOMSource then you should have exactly the equivalent functionality to DOMtoJ3D (except everything is implemented now, where DOMtoJ3D didn't handle large chunks of the scene graph. > Any word on when M6 can be expected? Shortly. We have a beta of the installer already out. We were going to release just before Christmas, but a couple of niggly bugs still hung around and then Alan headed off on holiday, so nothing ended up happening. Alan's back after the weekend and we haven't heard any bitching about the installer being broken, so you'll probably see it early next week. There's a couple of known issues with it that may be really annoying for people using the full browser (but not the loader). There have been a lot of people asking for the next milestone release ASAP so we felt it was better to wrap it up and get out a milestone now rather than fix every annoying issue. At I/ITSEC all everyone wanted to know was when we had a "Product" they could buy in a box set and didn't really care about the open-source-ness of it or anything else. So we're to catering to that crowd as they're the only ones paying us money to continue further development. -- Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java Architect & Bit Twiddler http://www.yumetech.com/ Author, Java 3D FAQ Maintainer http://www.j3d.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." - Greg Bear, Slant ------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
