+1 Thanks, Marius
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10 Jun 2015 at 21:45:30, Sergiu Dumitriu > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> +1 for removing DOM4J, it's been dead for 10 years. >> >> But why do we need a non w3c library at all? Why is JDOM better than DOM? >> >> The main reason is that it is supposedly easier to use for Java >> programmers, but is it that much easier to justify having different >> APIs? The standard DOM is part of the Java language. > > The DOM API was complex enough that several people created frameworks > providing alternatives. JDOM is one. That says a lot to me :) > > And indeed I find it easy to use. > > Ok so I’ changing the proposal from use JDOM2 to not using DOM4J. > > If a dev in XWiki needs to manipulate an XML structure he should use one of: > * The W3C DOM API > * JDOM2 > > (or XStream, Stax, etc. Note that JDOM is not an XML parser, it uses > available JAXP parser) > > Thanks > -Vincent > > >> On 06/10/2015 11:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> > Hi devs, >> > >> > I’d like to propose that we agree about: >> > * using JDOM2 when needing to parse/output XML files >> > * moving away existing code gradually from DOM4J to JDOM2 >> > >> > Rationale: >> > * It would be nice to pick one fwk and have more consistency >> > * DOM4J seems not maintained anymore: >> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/files/ >> > * JDOM2 seems maintained: http://jdom.org/news/ >> > >> > WDYT? >> > >> > Thanks >> > -Vincent >> >> >> -- >> Sergiu Dumitriu > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
