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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Stevens wrote:
> on 1/3/2001 10:24 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ug.
> >
> > Checked over the archives and didn't see this
> >
> > Why are we using JAXP and ProjectX which are both Closed Source and
> > proprietary
> > to SUN Microsystems. This is a Bad Thing. We already have an awesome XML
> > parser and I would say just *drop* the abstraction... not worth the loss of
> > Freedom :(.
>
> JAXP itself is just a parser API that the parser implements. Nothing big
> about that. I wouldn't fret it. It is also under the JCP so that is
> supposedly somewhat OSS in that if you bitch loudly enough to enough people,
> you will get let in. Well maybe.
>
> > This came up because I am having problems with ProjectX..
>
> Actually, Tomcat 4.x is using Crimson as its parser by default. It is OSS.
> Maybe you should use that instead.
>
> <http://xml.apache.org/websrc/cvsweb.cgi/xml-contrib/crimson/>
The latest version of the parser is infact
http://xml.apache.org/websrc/cvsweb.cgi/xml-crimson.
It's been moved from the contrib area..
- Rajiv
>
>
> p.s. Kevin, it is nice to see that you have finally stopping the PGP signing
> of your messages, that was so annoying, however now your .sig has about 10
> lines of additional crap at the bottom. Maybe you could compress it a bit.
> :-)
>
> -jon
>
>
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