James Pearson wrote: > > Hi, > > Are there any significant differences between XML4C 3.1.0 and Xerces 1.1.0?
XML4C 3.1.0 = Xerces 1.1.0 + ICU 1.4 ICU is a separate Open Source project (about 10 companies participating) on the DeveloperWorks site at IBM. ICU stands for "International Components for Unicode", and it does a large number of conversions between various code pages and Unicode, as well as providing a portable library for manipulating Unicode strings. Because it's a separate open source project, we haven't put it into the xml.apache.org source code repository. And, Xerces-C has built-in support for a small number of code pages (like UTF-8, iso-latin-1, US-ASCII, and UTF-16), so you don't necessarily need ICU anyway, if you stick to those encodings. If you need Shift_JIS or Big5 support, for example, you'll need a transcoding service. Xerces provides 3 ways to do it, using an abstracted transcoding API: ICU (go get it from developerworks), iconv (many Unixes have this), and Win32 (clearly only available on Win32). So, for XML4C, the ICU code is publically available, and IBM just does the integration. > I'm planning to port my app (now on Win2000) to Sun and later to OS/390. > It would be nice if I could use the same source for all platforms - I kinda > thought I could. Yes, you should be able to do this. > Mike Pogue said: > "The IBM 390 people plan to have a OS/390 version available (using the > latest Xerces code base) in 60-90 days." > > Does anyone know if this will this be available as a Xerces release? XML.apache.org won't be building any 390 releases itself, because it doesn't have a 390 to do it on! So, right now, here's the way it works: the IBM 390 porting group in Poughkeepsie ports Xerces to 390, and sends the changes to my group (in California), and we put the changes into Xerces, so that everybody gets them under the open source Apache license. You can then get Xerces, and compile it yourself. The Xerces-C 1.1.0 release should build on 390 right now (hey, could you try this, and let us know?). I probably should have said that the 390 people will have an _official_ IBM release on 390 in 60-90 days, but I don't want to turn this into a product announcement or commitment on their part. If you want to know what IBM is doing _officially_, you should talk to them directly...(he said with his apache hat on!) > Thanks, > Jim Pearson > Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anupam Bagchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: XML Parser on OS390 > > XML4C Version 3.1.0 actually compiles and builds out of the box on OS/390. > Please download it directly from IBM's AlphaWorks site > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com. It is based on Xerces-C 1.1.0. > > - Anupam > ================================================ > Anupam Bagchi > Advisory Software Engineer > XML Development Group, IBM Cupertino > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 408-777-5842 > ================================================ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Yen Trinh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 10:13 PM > Subject: XML Parser on OS390 > > > I'm looking for a XML Parser (SAX parser is what we need for now) for > > OS390. My main application is running on MVS Batch, with POXIS on and > > multi threaded environment and it is written mostly in c and some c++. > > Is there something that has been ported and working on the MVS? > > > > In November, Mike Pogue mentioned that Xerces-C with XML4C version 2 was > > ported to OS390. Is this still available for download? > > > > Thanks for any advice, > > Yen > >
