Sorry, I just discovered that the Xerces DocumentImpl is not final ! It is the IBM DocumentImpl that is final.
Never mind (he says very sheepishly) Paul Levin wrote: > I just decided to upgrade from xml4j_2_0_15 to the latest, to find that > IBM has passed the buck to Xerces. > > Ok, sounds great. But my java code does not run with the new package, > and when I went to recompile, > the first error I get is caused by the fact that DocumentImpl was > declared final by Xerces. WHY ?? > Is there another, front end class, for DocumentImpl ? > > We have a critical class in our code, that extends DocumentImpl, and not > that code won't compile. > > Can someone please comment on this ?
