Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

Michael Glavassevich wrote:

>Neeraj Bajaj <[email protected]> wrote on 10/13/2004 10:11:00 AM:
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>>Hello All,
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>>I was wondering when can we start merging the JAXP 1.3 sources ? Merging 
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>>the code in branch/review/testing/committing to main trunk
>>would take time so at least from my side i would like to see this work 
>>started as early as possible say from tomorrow.
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>>What is the general procedure ? Is there any formality that needs to be 
>>completed first ? What is the opinion of
>>(Xml-commons/Xerces/Xalan) committers ?
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>I'm interested in getting started on this so tomorrow sounds good to me. 
>Formally, that's a +1 from me.
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It would be good to see response from Xalan committers too.  

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>>As the sources would be put in a branch so it won't affect normal 
>>development but it would be good if we can restrict
>>large chunk of changes to the main trunk and fix only critical changes. 
>>It would help merging the changes back to main
>>trunk. What do others think ?
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>I think that's a good idea. We should merge the RI code into the main 
>trunk in stages. One of the first things I'd like to see on the Xerces 
>main trunk is an update of xml-apis.jar to JAXP 1.3, so we can clean-up 
>the hacks currently there for SAX 2.0.2 and DOM Level 3.
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I agree.

Thanks,
Neeraj