I believe JDK1.4.1 comes with Xerces as the default JAXP parser. I am specifically interested in seeing Xindice work with parsers like Crimson.
Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Lixin Meng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Xerces dependency > > I also did a test that removing the xerces???.jar from xml- > xindice/java/lib > directory. It doesn't seem affect the build nor basic query (I didn't test > the RPC staff though). > > Is this because I am using j2sdk1.4.1, which already has xerces? If the > problem Kevin mentioned solved, will it still be necessary for Xindice to > be > shipped with Xerces???.jar? > > Regards, > Lixin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Xerces dependency > > > The dependency I found seems to lie in the XmlRpc.setDriver("xerces") > scattered throughout. > > It seems that (http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/parser.html) you should be > able to change that easily, by making this configurable (xindice config) > and using the configured implementation in the code. > > Just my thoughts from a little perusing... > > -Kevin Ross > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Xerces dependency > > I believe I remember seeing comments in the code about the dependency > thus implying to me at least that removal of the dependency would be > non-trivial. However, we have found a business need to remove the Xerces > dependency and figured the project could benefit. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gianugo Rabellino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:47 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Xerces dependency > > > > Matt Liotta wrote: > > > Actually I wasn't volunteering, but if no one else is working on it > then > > > my company will likely tackle the problem in the coming months. I > just > > > didn't want to waste resources on work someone else was doing. > > > > > > > That would be cool. However, I'm not dead sure that the Xerces > > dependancy can be removed easily from the current codebase. I think > that > > some of the Xindice internals rely on some Xerces code (not exposed by > > Jaxp). This is for sure the case with Xalan, on which the source > relies > > for the XPath compiler (and, BTW, XUpdate too depends on Xalan). > > > > > BTW, any Xindice hackers out there who are looking for contract work > > > implementing changes to Xindice? > > > > Oh well... you have my e-mail, don't you? ;-) > > > > Ciao, > > > > -- > > Gianugo Rabellino > > CTO > > Pro-netics s.r.l. > > http://www.pro-netics.com
