Re: DOM Level 3 Events and XPath in xml-apis-ext.jar

Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> wrote on 11/19/2006 04:13:49 AM:

> But couldn't the stable parts be merged into Trunk and released from
> there? With the separate JAR it shouldn't get in the way of the TCK,
> would it?

Do you mean the SAC, SMIL and SVG bindings? I agree that those could be 
merged onto the trunk.

> On 19.11.2006 05:19:59 Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> > Hi Cameron,
> > 
> > Cameron McCormack <[email protected]> wrote on 11/18/2006 07:45:49 PM:
> > 
> > > Hi commonsers.
> > > 
> > > Earlier this year, Jeremias took the initiative[1] to make a branch 
of
> > > XML Commons to include DOM Level 3 (and SVG 1.1) interfaces.  Batik 
is
> > > looking at making a release soon (in the next couple of months) and 
so
> > > I?d like to reuse as much external code as possible from Commons 
rather
> > > than including it in Batik?s repository.
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans on merging this branch into the trunk any time 
soon
> > > (and having another release)?
> > 
> > Oddly enough, I was just about to propose a release for this Wednesday 
so 
> > that Xalan-J 2.7.1 can pick up the latest APIs in their release [2] on 

> > Friday.
> > 
> > I don't think we can move DOM Level 3 Events onto the trunk yet. JAXP 
1.3 
> > (which is currently on the trunk) includes DOM Level 2 Events. Since 
DOM 
> > Level 3 Events adds methods to existing interfaces it's probably not 
going 
> > to get by the JAXP 1.3 TCK's signature tests. This TCK issue [3] is 
what 
> > led to having a branch in the first place.
> > 
> > > I note that DOM Level 3 Events is still a
> > > Working Draft (and I?m not sure what the current timeline is) and 
DOM 3
> > > XPath is a Note (but will be returned to WD status soon), so that 
may
> > > affect whether you want these interfaces to go in a release at this
> > > stage.
> > >
> > > Including only the stable DOM Level 3 interfaces in a Commons 
release,
> > > and having the unstable ones in Batik?s tree, would be a good 
compromise
> > > for now I think.  If a release isn?t going to be made soon, is it
> > > ?wrong? to make a jar from code that?s in the branch and include it 
in
> > > Batik?s distribution?
> > 
> > Historically that's what had been happening with Xerces and Xalan 
> > releases. Really there should have been official releases of the APIs. 
In 
> > the future (hopefully in the next few days) there will be. I think we 
> > should do the same for Batik and have a release of the 
external-extended 
> > branch.
> > 
> > > (By the way, should discussion remain on this list, or move to a 
xerces
> > > list?)
> > 
> > This is still the right list.
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Cameron
> > > 
> > > [1] 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00560.html
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/
> > >    xmpp:[email protected]  ?  ICQ 26955922  ?  MSN [email protected]
> > 
> > [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=116384070614284&w=2
> > [3] 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-commons-dev&m=113889540731107&w=2
> > 
> > Michael Glavassevich
> > XML Parser Development
> > IBM Toronto Lab
> > E-mail: [email protected]
> > E-mail: [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremias Maerki

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail: [email protected]