Re: org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler in xml-commons/JAXP

Thanks for the clarification, Shane.  Some comments below.

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:11, [email protected] wrote:

> In principle I'd say we'll be shipping the version that matches the 
> current JAXP 1.2 TCK, since we need to pass the TCK to have an official 
> release.

Makes sense.

>   Unfortunately this sometimes means shipping potentially 
> confusing code for those who are already expecting the latest-and-greatest 
> of all their components.

Hm, regarding this particular change, the people who are most likely to
get bitten are folks still using a < 1.4 J2SE and xml-commons-apis
1.0b2, kind of not ones who already expect the latest and greatest IMHO
:)

xml-commons-apis 1.0b2 is (sf.net) SAX 2 compatible, but incompatible
with /all/ JAXP versions wrt. this tiny bit (IIRC).  And Xerces and
friends who ship SAX APIs have since long shipped JAXP (ie. not SAX)
compatible versions.

The next version of xml-commons-apis seems to turn this around, leaving
sf.net SAX alone "incompatible" with other Java packages including SAX
APIs.

> Does that help at all?

Yes, thanks.

>   I'm too tired today to completely parse the 
> message, but does anyone believe that we still have SAX code that does not 
> match the JAXP 1.2 TCK?  If so, we need to fix it.

I don't know about this.

>   If we have code that 
> does not match sourceforge SAX release, well, then, that's too bad for 
> now.

This is what I was asking.  I think adding a note about this in the
release notes would not be a bad idea, especially because it is also an
incompatibility between xml-commons-apis 1.0b2 and $nextversion.

Cheers, \/ille