On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 06:54, Colm O hEigeartaigh <cohei...@apache.org> wrote: >> - Create a new "NamespaceEqualityChecker" that provides methods for >> checking the various bits of a namespace (URIs, prefixes) and use it >> anywhere that either == or equals() is used today. Implementations based on >> == and equals() would be provided with the default implementation being >> equals()-based. A configuration option should then be made available to >> control which impl gets used. > > Sounds good. Have you thought about backwards compatibility issues > though, in relation to the ElementCheckerImpl? We don't want to break > backwards compatibility for a minor release if at all possible.
Yeah, just replace the innards of the ElementCheckerImpls with calls to the corresponding NamespaceEqualityChecker impls that correspond to that functionality and mark ElementChecker as deprecated. Then it can be removed later. -- Chad La Joie www.itumi.biz trusted identities, delivered
