Re: Commons XML Factory draft

> I finally pushed an initial draft of the Commons XML Factory project I
> proposed back in December [1]:
> 
> https://github.com/copernik-eu/commons-xml-factory
+1 for whatever that's worth :-)

Hard disagree on suggestions about putting it in Xerces. Having a 
light-weight, easy-to-review and easy-to-use "library" for this sounds 
like the best way of getting people to actually use it.

IIRC there was a discussion about where to put this some time ago and no 
one could come up with a better place than Commons.

In an ideal world, XML parsing libraries would adopt these sane defaults 
and unsafe behaviour would require explicit configuration instead of 
vice versa. But a tiny library seems like the next best thing.

Willing to pitch in and have a look at where other Commons projects 
could benefit from this, I'm sure there are a couple of 
DocumentBuilderFactories and such lurking around.

  - Elric