Hi everyone, The Xerces developers (myself included) have started planning for a Xerces-J release which will add support for JAXP 1.4 [1][2]. JAXP 1.4 is a minor update to JAXP 1.3; the largest technical change being the addition of StAX (JSR 173) [3] and new Source/Result classes (see the javax.xml.transform.stax package) which can be used with transformers and validators. I believe Apache Harmony will eventually require JAXP 1.4 to complete an implementation of Java SE 6.0. Other Apache projects (Axis2, XMLBeans, etc...) are already using StAX.
With the JAXP 1.4 specification nearing finalization I propose that the main trunk of XML Commons External be upgraded to JAXP 1.4 and a branch be created for maintenance of JAXP 1.3 (which is what is currently on the main trunk). I noticed that a copy of the StAX API source is being distributed with XMLBeans here [4] (see jsr173_1.0_api_bundle.jar) and on Apache mirror sites. The source files contain Javadoc so it would be great if we could use them. The README contained in the jar states that the source and binary files are distributed under the Apache License 2.0, so it would appear to me that the source can be included [5] in XML Commons External. What do folks think? Thanks. [1] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/spec/html/ [2] https://jaxp-sources.dev.java.net/nonav/docs/api/ [3] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=173 [4] http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repository/xmlbeans/jars/ [5] http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html#category-a Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
