Jacob Kjome wrote:
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Jacob Kjome wrote:
Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put
it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this
didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper
official release of xml-commons-external (xml-apis-1.3.04.jar) and
included much improved (and shared) serializer code, in serializer.jar,
maintained by the Xalan team, not to mention the new
xml-commons-resolver release. There's a lot to love, but not enough to
get included in Ant-1.7.0, I guess.
Jake
Oh, we love xerces, and have been shipping it for a long time. It
eliminates nearly all XML-parser related support calls.
We've been working to get a stable release together for a while and
opted to minimise late changes of any kind, as it would force another
beta cycle.
One thing we have learned is that a lot of people avoid the beta
releases and only d/l the release versions, so tne 1.7.0 release will
get tested in more complex builds and aberrant system configurations
than the normal developer & beta test teams do. Which invariably forces
us to to do a 1.7.1 release within two or three months. This is the
release where we will gladly roll out Xerces 2.9 and matching APIs.
Makes sense.
We've just upgraded in SVN_HEAD, BTW.
Incidentally, does xerces now depend on this serializer.jar? That is,
does it need to be included in the distro? Or are its classes merged
into xerces and xalan? These are the kind of thing we need to understand
before we ship
No, there's no dependency in Xerces. It's loaded via reflection by Xerces. But
they have deprecated their native serializer classes in favor of the shared one
provided by the Xalan team. If serializer.jar is in the path, it will be used.
If not, the deprecated Xerces native serialization will be used (assuming one
isn't directly referencing the Xerces native serializer API rather than
properly using the interfaces, such as JAXP or DOM3LS). I'm not clear on
whether the same will be true for the next Xalan release (2.7.1, I think [1])?
They may actually depend directly on serializer.jar (or maybe they'll
incorporate it within xalan.jar?). I guess we'll find out when they make the
release official.
Jake
[1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xalan/java/tags/xalan-j_2_7_1/
OK. So we ought to hold off to see what xalan does. if they build it in,
it should be the only copy on the classpath to avoid version problems
-steve
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