Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-15 Thread Isaac Shabtay
> Actually I think I disagree. Users have three chances to override the > defaults; application developers have effectively two. > So there are plenty of ways to override this default setting. I'd > almost argue that I'd like to see Sun's RI builds explicitly set this, > since those bui

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-15 Thread Shane Curcuru
you Isaac Shabtay wrote > jaxp.jar contains an implementation of > javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory. This implementation's > "newInstance" method does the search using the four steps above. When it > comes to step number 4, it looks for Crimson. > > So, if tomorrow there'll be an

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-12 Thread Edwin Goei
Isaac Shabtay wrote: > > > Huh? I'm not sure what you mean. The JAXP specification is effectively > > a bunch of interfaces that anyone can implement (along with the rest of > > the docs, etc.). Apache happens to have several implementations of > > Well, this I already know. > Yet, javax.xml.p

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-12 Thread Isaac Shabtay
> Huh? I'm not sure what you mean. The JAXP specification is effectively > a bunch of interfaces that anyone can implement (along with the rest of > the docs, etc.). Apache happens to have several implementations of Well, this I already know. Yet, javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory and ja

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-12 Thread Edwin Goei
Isaac Shabtay wrote: > > Hi, > > javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory is supposed to search for the > factory implementation in some places. > The last place to look for is: > > = START QUOTE == > • Platform default DocumentBuilderFactory instance. > > = END QUOTE =

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-12 Thread Edwin Goei
Shane Curcuru wrote: > > like this. Sun then happend to choose to re-ship their own versions of > Crimson and Xalan as the 'reference implementations' of the actual JAXP > 1.1 release - which is actually pretty cool that they chose our > implementations over other ones. One orthogonal comment h

Re: javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory

2001-10-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
Huh? I'm not sure what you mean. The JAXP specification is effectively a bunch of interfaces that anyone can implement (along with the rest of the docs, etc.). Apache happens to have several implementations of JAXP 1.1: Crimson, Xerces 1.x, Xerces 2.x, and Xalan 2.x - because we already had the