Hi,
I am working on a scientific data format for XML, XDF
(http://xml.gsfc.nasa.gov/XDF).
As part of the project, I want to subclass various parts of the DOM object
tree to put
in place various convience methods to access XDF portions of the DOM. I find
that
the way that Xerces (1.4.3 and now 1.4.4) is written prevents this, namely,
the ElementState.java
class doesnt declare its fields to be public. Below I have included a (very
simple) patch
that will remedy the situation.
The last time I submitted this patch I was resoundingly ignored. Is there a
better place
to submit (short) patches like this, or is there great resistance to making
these fields
public, or was the ball dropped from the last time I submitted the patch?
Regards,
-b.t.
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*** ElementState.java.orig Fri Aug 31 15:22:35 2001
--- ElementState.java Fri Aug 31 14:34:24 2001
***************
*** 77,146 ****
/**
* The element's raw tag name (local or prefix:local).
*/
! String rawName;
/**
* The element's local tag name.
*/
! String localName;
/**
* The element's namespace URI.
*/
! String namespaceURI;
/**
* True if element is space preserving.
*/
! boolean preserveSpace;
/**
* True if element is empty. Turns false immediately
* after serializing the first contents of the element.
*/
! boolean empty;
/**
* True if the last serialized node was an element node.
*/
! boolean afterElement;
/**
* True if the last serialized node was a comment node.
*/
! boolean afterComment;
/**
* True if textual content of current element should be
* serialized as CDATA section.
*/
! public boolean doCData;
/**
* True if textual content of current element should be
* serialized as raw characters (unescaped).
*/
! public boolean unescaped;
/**
* True while inside CData and printing text as CData.
*/
! public boolean inCData;
/**
* Association between namespace URIs (keys) and prefixes (values).
*/
! public Hashtable prefixes;
}
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