Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 11:53 +0200 schrieb Jukka Zitting: > Hi, > > On Jan 16, 2008 6:01 PM, Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My experience is that all XML parser are a little bit different. I > > don't know about you, but I did run into quite many problems because > > of XML parser incompatibilities. If we always use the same parser we > > would be sure we always get the same result on all systems. I believe > > that would be a big advantage, what do you think? > > In Jackrabbit we only use a fairly standard subset of XML > functionality, mainly just parsing and serialization of relatively > simple XML documents. I think the only real XML parser incompatibility > issue we've faced is the xmlns serialization issue, and we have good > workarounds for that. > > So I don't see us having many problems with using standard JAXP, and > given the classloading horrors described by Carsten I would very much > prefer sticking with standard JAXP.
I am not totally fluent with the state nowadays: But hasn't there been a time, that Java 1.4 included a buggy Xerces version, which could only be "replaced" by hacking the boot class path ?? I may of course be completely wrong. Regards Felix
