That issue is always there. There are people who may not care about DOM
at all and may just want SAX for which they will write their own handlers.
People can use what they want. Don't make more than one distribution. It
always become difficult to maintain it and alsop confusing for people as to
what all do they need to download if they want the entire functionality..

- Rajiv

Ralf Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > Again, due to statement#1, there is no real reason to move the generic DOM
> > above the xerces package, but there are motivations to separate it into its
> > own package.
> >
> > -Ralf
> 
> Correction: One reason to move a generic DOM out above Xerces is so that you 
> don't
> need the xerces jar simply to use the DOM. Of course we could provide  a
> "jar-stripper" tool, which allows you to select the items you want. This will
> probably come up again, as xerces provides more functionality (like multiple
> DOMs), or even some DOM Level2 functionality which a specific client may not 
> need.
> 


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  UNIX _is_ user friendly, 
  he's just very picky about who his friends are.

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