Update:

Issue #1 I've opened bugzilla against XmlCommons [1]

Issue #2 is fixed in revision 327076 [2] in SVN.

Jeremy

[1] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37267
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=327076&view=rev

On 10/26/05, Jeremy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glen, Xerces and others rely on XmlCommons for external APIs and this
> is where Xerces gets its QName class from [1]. The version of QName in
> xml-commons in the JAXP 1.3 version. J2SE 5 also ships a QName class.
> Currently both these implementations of QName have problems:
>
> 1. The serialVersionUID is different to previous versions of QName.
> The woden QNameTest picks this up and this exception is thrown:
>
> java.io.InvalidClassException: javax.xml.namespace.QName; local class
> incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID =
> -9120448754896609940, local class serialVersionUID =
> 4418622981026545151
>
> 2. After getting past the suid issue ... the original QName class
> didn't contain a prefix member variable so when one of these is
> deserialized into the Xerces or J2SE QName, the prefix value is null.
> A readObject() method is required to check for this and set the prefix
> to "". This is also picked up by the Woden QNameTest test.
>
> At least #1 will be fixed in Sun JDK 5 rev 6. IBM has raised the #2
> issue with Sun. Sorry I don't have Sun bug numbers for these to hand.
>
> For now we have our own implementation of QName in woden that passes
> these tests.
>
> Jeremy
>
> [1] 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xml/commons/trunk/java/external/src/javax/xml/namespace/QName.java
>
> On 10/25/05, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > Isn't javax.xml.namespace.QName built into jaxp/xerces these days?
> >
> > --Glen
> >
> > Arthur Ryman wrote:
> > > Jeremy,
> > >
> > > If we only need a simple class or two them it's probably not incuring
> > > the overhead of another dependency. Why not proceed with our own
> > > implementation if that saves time, and then later try to eliminate
> > > redundant code.
> > >
> > > On 10/24/05, Jeremy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I've noticed the XML commons has a QName class. It currently has an
> > >>incorrect suid although I'm told they're going to fix that. We could
> > >>use their QName class once it is fixed. There could be some useful XML
> > >>utilities there - which we could/should use instead of our own
> > >>utilities classes if they overlap in function.
> > >>
> > >>However, if the only class we could use from XML commons is QName then
> > >>I'd like to stick with having our own so we don't require our users to
> > >>download XML commons.
> > >>
> > >>What do you think?
> > >>
> > >>Cheers,
> > >>Jeremy
> > >>
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