Henrik Niehaus schrieb: > Hi JOSM coders, > > I came across several problems and feature requests for GPX files while > looking at the bug tracker and reading this list. So I decided to learn > a new technology and gave JAXB a try. The result is a JOSM, which fully > supports GPX 1.0 and 1.1, because JAXB uses the xml schemas to generate > entity classes. > I have replaced the old entities with the new ones, so this patch > touches many files of the core and probably some of the plugins will > brake, but I think it's worth the switch to this implementation, because > of these points: > > 1. The GpxWriter doesn't respect the order of xml elements and can > create invalid files > 2. It is not type safe and has problems with element types other than > String. See ticket #2359. > 3. JOSM is able to read any valid GPX 1.0/1.1 and write it back as GPX 1.1 > 4. Many of the GPX features are not implemented yet and have to be > implemented manually, if they are needed in the future, while the JAXB > implementation comes with full support for all elements > > Cons: > 1. JOSM depends on JAXB -> 5 jars with a total size of 1MiB (for JDK > 1.5. JDK 1.6 comes with JAXB) > 2. It's a big patch and might need some time to get everything > (including plugins) back to work > 3. New bugs, which made their way in the new implementation > > So, what do you think about this patch? > > Best > Henrik
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