RE: New Xalan not playing well with Tomcat 4.0?

[Joseph Kesselman]

On Tuesday, 06/18/2002 at 10:53 MST, "Gary L Peskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the answer to (1) is that we need to have a Xalan-wide
> classloader strategy and we should implement that in all of the places
> that we use classloaders.

One problem is that some of the standards we implement (JAXP/TrAX/SAX) have their own implementations of that code, and _they_ don't necessarily agree with each other ... so the question of which (if any) of these we should be basing our own code upon is less than perfectly clear. It's a pity Sun hasn't provided a standard encapsulation for this...

> BTW, the OS/390 (zSeries) people have solved the problem of the
> appropriate encoding for standalone properties files.

Good to hear!

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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research