> Joseph Kesselman wrote:
> > xml-apis.jar shipped with Xalan have org.w3c.dom.html.* apis.
> >Does Xalan have any real dependency on those apis ??
>
> Basically, xml-apis is all of xml-commons. If the xml-commons activity was
> producing their own jarfile, we'd use that rather than generating our own.
>
> This does mean we include some interfaces which we aren't currently using,
> including the HTML DOM files.
Thanks for your help, Joe.
>Our judgement was that this minor overhead
> was safer than trying to pick and choose, since the goal is that eventually
> all of Apache ought to be able to use a single off-the-shelf collection of
> XML APIs rather than having each project maintain their own.
Yes. This issue is often raised about xml-commons taking this
responsibility and different projects using more & more xml-commons in
relation to JAXP, DOM & SAX.
Thanks,
Neeraj B.
Sun Microsystems, inc.
