On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Milind Gadre wrote:

> Neil, the primary (only ??) reason one would support JDK1.1 is perhaps
> Internet Explorer compatibility. Maybe I am wrong. If IE is the only /
> primary reason, the question to ask is how many folks use Xerces within
> an applet. Perhaps they can use the Java plug in.

It's not IE itself that's the issue, it's the MS JVM.  Xerces needs to
stay Java 1.1 compatible if people are to be able to deploy it in COM
components.  Maybe this won't be such a problem once MSXML 4 is stable,
but until then I'll stick with Xerces as a tried and tested
schema-validating parser.

Ian

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Ian Roberts, Software Engineer        DecisionSoft Ltd.
Telephone: +44-1865-203192            http://www.decisionsoft.com


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