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James Duncan Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 1/3/01 10:24 PM, "Kevin A. Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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 :(.
>
> Then why are you using Java which is composed of code most of which isn't
> under a free license and is proprietary to either Sun and/or its partners?
> Is that worth the loss of Freedom?
... spending 15% of my spare cycles working on GNU Classpath, GNU Java
Compiler. Pretty soon SUN will just be another irrelevant company :) GCC 3.0
will ship with GCJ and should be about JDK 1.1 compliant :) yeah baby!
> Having a problem with Project X doesn't mean scrapping the use of JAXP --
> esp since two implementations of the parser and the impl of the transform
> engine is under the ASF license. Or should we just hard code the
> dependencies and not let people choose which parser to use?
There is an OSS JAXP implementation at oje.sourceforge.net. I was just pointed
to it today so :)...
Kevin
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