> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 01:10, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Simon Kitching wrote: > > So in order to serialize my dom object to HTML, I can either: > > (a) bundle the whole of Xalan with my app, or > > (b) require java1.4 (to get xslt serialization), or > > (c) use the DOM3 load/save API, which is not yet approved, or > > (d) use the deprecated HtmlSerializer? > > > > None of the above seems particularly appealing. I guess that (c) is > > meant to be the future solution to this issue, right? > > (c) would be a standard solution for serializing a DOM into XML once > DOM Level 3 Load and Save is finalized. >
[snip] > LSSerializer is an XML serializer. It provides no method for > serializing a DOM to HTML. The only standard way I'm aware of for > serializing HTML is to use JAXP. By "JAXP", I presume you mean instantiating an "identity" javax.xml.transform.Transformer object, and executing its transform method with a StreamResult object as the target? If this is indeed the case, then could I please make an explicit request to undeprecate the org.apache.xml.serializer.HTMLSerializer class? I don't think I will be alone in being unhappy about being forced to distribute the whole of Xalan with my app, just in order to be able to serialize Document objects to HTML on pre-java-1.4 environments. I would point out that over in jakarta-commons, we recently had a discussion on what JVMs we had to support, and the answer was that *lots* of people still need java1.2 support, with a reasonable number still stuck with 1.1. I have quite a few customers who are running java1.3 myself. Essentially deprecating a feature for which the only replacement is java1.4 or the whole Xalan lib seems a bit tough. And of course the jaxp transform package implementation in 1.4 (a rather buggy version of Xalan) wasn't that hot anyway. What is the best way to raise this issue properly? I could raise a bugzilla entry, but am afraid it won't be noticed. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
