I am totally for doing this change, but JDK 1.4?? I don't think that's an option, don't a lot of people here develop on Mac OS X??
Our project team is Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, so if we could keep it working against JDK 1.3 until 1.4 comes out for OSX ( hopefully soon )... just a thought. fernando On Mon, 13 May 2002, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > James Bates wrote: > > Been investigating the issue of XML serializing, which seems to happen > > in too many different in too many > > places in Xindice. Xerces contains a good serialization implementation > > in the org.apache.xml.serialize package: > > It CORRECTLY handles namespaces, intl character encodings, indenting > > when required etc... > > > > The interfaces are identical in Xerces 1.xxx and Xerces 2.xxx so there > > isn't really a risk here either. > > > > Would you guys accept if I investigated moving Xindice to this more > > standard method of serializing, thus doing away > > with StringSerializer and TextWriter classes in the Xindice code? > > > > James > > > > Hmmm, question: what's wrong with using the JAXP 1.1 API for > serializing? that comes for free in JDK 1.4 and it's actually > implemented by those classes you mention above. > >
