Hi Santiago, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen schrieb am 19.03.2010 um 13:31:25 (-0400): > On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > BUNBURY Myles schrieb am 18.03.2010 um 12:01:15 (-0500): > > > >> 1. What's the difference between "com.sun.org.apache.xalan.*" and > >> "org.apache.xalan.*"? > > > > The former is Sun's fork of Xalan, which ships with the JRE, just > > like their fork of Xerces. From numerous posts on XML-related lists > > and from my own experience I know that it's best to avoid them > > because they have numerous astonishing bugs, especially with JDK > > 1.6. > > Have you ever filed any of these bugs? If you did, let me know and I > can forward them to the right engineers. Is there any specific area > where these bugs are concentrated?
I'm sorry I haven't ever filed any bug with Sun. It is too easy to just use Apache Xerces or Xalan. I made a habit of installing the Apache versions because I've been bitten several times by the Sun versions, and also because more experienced XML users and implementors regularly warn people not to use the Sun versions, especially Sun Xerces for JDK 1.6. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/xom-interest/2009-September/003992.html But it's good to know that Sun does care about the quality of the versions shipping with the JDK, and from now on I'll follow your constructive suggestion and point people to http://bugs.sun.com/ instead of just saying "don't use it, it's buggy". Best, -- Michael Ludwig
