Re: JDK9 project: XML/JAXP Approachability / Ease of Use

2014-06-26 Thread huizhe wang
Thanks Michael! And, welcome to core-libs-dev! :-) On 6/26/2014 4:02 AM, Michael Kay wrote: Here are some quick thoughts about the state of XML support in the JDK: 1. XML Parser. The version of Xerces in the JDK has long been buggy, and no-one has been fixing the bugs. It needs to be replaced

Re: JDK9 project: XML/JAXP Approachability / Ease of Use

2014-06-26 Thread Michael Kay
Here are some quick thoughts about the state of XML support in the JDK: 1. XML Parser. The version of Xerces in the JDK has long been buggy, and no-one has been fixing the bugs. It needs to be replaced with a more recent version of Apache Xerces if that hasn't already been done. 2. DOM. From a

JDK9 project: XML/JAXP Approachability / Ease of Use

2014-06-23 Thread huizhe wang
Hi, We're planning on a jaxp project to address usability issues in the JAXP API. One of the complaints about the JAXP API is the number of lines of code that are needed to implement a simple task. Tasks that should take one or two lines often take ten or twelve lines instead. Consider the fo