The first public draft should be available any day. It was handed to
web engineering and will be posted in our web site any day. We will be
sure to send mail announcing it when it shows.
- eduard/o
ps: for JCP geeks, this is JSR-5. The JCP process is described at
http://java.sun.com/jcp. I could not find a recently updated
description of this effort, so just wait a little bit.
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:49:09 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Request for Vote: Dom Package Change
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> "Rajiv Mordani [CONTRACTOR]" wrote:
>
> > >> The question to resolve is whether or not people think that the
> > >> DOM implementation is *the* generic DOM for all of the Apache
> > >> XML project. If "yes", then let's move it. If "no", then we
> > >> need to ask if there is a generic DOM.
> >
> > Well if you want to be real generic refer to the interfaces in org.w3c.dom.
>
> This is the key. What we are missing is something like
>
> org.w3c.dom.Document javax.xml.Document.createDocument();
>
> backed up with something like
>
> void javax.xml.Document.setFactory(javax.xml.DocumentFactory factory);
>
> and I know Sun is working on hooks like these in the XML API JCP
> proposal (don't ask me it's status, though). Let's not forget this: you
> shouldn't even _know_ what classes implement your polymorphic
> interfaces. This is the beauty of it. So it doesn't really make a
> difference org.apache.xml.dom or org.apache.xerces.dom.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
> --
> Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
> able to give birth to a dancing star.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
