Re: Comments on the Xerces portions on the JAXP 1.3 donation

Neeraj Bajaj wrote:
> re: cutting these dependencies
> 
> This should be possible because validator works on SAX stream. DOM --> 
> SAX converter is required.
> Kohsuke, Do you want to add here ?

I agree that we just need DOM->SAX converter to get rid of the 
dependency to the identity transformer, and we can certainly do so by 
copying the relevant code from Xalan.



>>In addition there have been modifications made to both XNI and the XML 
>>Schema API. Specifically a constructor and a method were added to 
>>org.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLInputSource which handle 
>>javax.xml.transform.Source objects. org.apache.xerces.xs.XSTypeDefinition 
>>was modified so that it also extends org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo. These changes 
>>would make XNI dependent on JAXP and the XML Schema API on DOM Level 3. 
>>Though minor changes have been made on occasion, XNI is more or less 
>>final. The XML Schema API is a published API [3] which both Xerces-J and 
>>Xerces-C++ support. Though it may be possible to make modifications to 
>>both of these APIs in Xerces, it seems like the changes were made for 
>>convenience and could be replaced without modifying XNI or the XML Schema 
>>API.
 >
> Kohsuke do you have any opinion on this ?

If it can be replaced without modifying XNI or the XML Schema API, I 
have no problem.


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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   [email protected]