Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Chris, Sorry for moving so slow on this. I am a bit over-committed lately and clearly this is not a subject I am that knowledgeable about, so it takes some time to digest. On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:11 +, Chris Burdess wrote: So, does anybody else have any comments? Otherwise I think

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-04 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:46 +, Chris Burdess wrote: Mark Wielaard wrote: Arguably, if we change the name we lose any benefit of being able to plug in a 3rd party datatype library implementation. It would be trivial to duplicate just the part of the API we need in a private

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-03 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Chris, On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:02 +, Chris Burdess wrote: Arguably, if we change the name we lose any benefit of being able to plug in a 3rd party datatype library implementation. It would be trivial to duplicate just the part of the API we need in a private namespace and use

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-03 Thread Chris Burdess
Mark Wielaard wrote: Arguably, if we change the name we lose any benefit of being able to plug in a 3rd party datatype library implementation. It would be trivial to duplicate just the part of the API we need in a private namespace and use that for our own providers, but we would only be able to

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-02 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Burdess wrote: This patch adds the RELAX NG pluggable datatypes library to Classpath. This API, and an implementation of it, will be used by the W3C XML Schema and RELAX NG JAXP validators currently in development. [...] Please let me know

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Chris, On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:07 +, Chris Burdess wrote: This patch adds the RELAX NG pluggable datatypes library to Classpath. This API, and an implementation of it, will be used by the W3C XML Schema and RELAX NG JAXP validators currently in development. Please let me know

Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Datatypes library

2006-02-02 Thread Chris Burdess
Mark Wielaard wrote: This patch adds the RELAX NG pluggable datatypes library to Classpath. This API, and an implementation of it, will be used by the W3C XML Schema and RELAX NG JAXP validators currently in development. Please let me know how you feel about this. Could you explain a bit more