Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

I would like to encourage such a move at least for all the license  
clean-up this could bring in!! xml-apis, e.g. as distributed by maven,  
would finally come with an easy to use pack of licenses!
(and a safe one!)

paul


Le 12 oct. 04, à 14:02, Neeraj Bajaj a écrit :

>  Hello All,
>
>
>  As most of you already know JSR 206 [1] JAXP 1.3 has become final.  
>  JAXP 1.3 adds lots of new features in the area of XML processing.
>  It introduces new Schema independent validation framework which  
> decouples the validation as a process independent from parsing.
>  It allows to compile Schema to an immutable memory representation of  
> Grammar which can validate different instances of XML document thus
>  greatly improving the performance of XML processing.  XPath language  
> provides a simple, concise syntax for accessing individual parts of an
>  XML document. JAXP 1.3 defines XPath APIs which provides access to  
> the XPath evaluation environment and expression results independent
>  of the underlying data object model. JAXP 1.3 also adds new Datatypes  
> to the Java platform which maps to some of  the W3C XML Schema
>  Datatypes, Features for Secured XML processing etc.  JAXP 1.3 also  
> adds the ability to reset XML Parser and Transformer instance ,  
> allowing
>  application to reuse the same instance to process multiple XML  
> documents.  This also helps in increasing XML processing performance.
>  JAXP 1.3 also upgrades to the W3C stds. like DOM L3 Core DOM L3 L/S,  
> XML 1.1, XInclude.
>
> Sun Microsystems  would like to donate JAXP 1.3 sources (API s +  
> Reference Implementation) to Apache.
>
>
> Details of JAXP 1.3 sources to be donated:
>
>  JAXP 1.3 sources contains the new JAXP 1.3 APIs and the RI (Reference  
> Implementation). RI has been done using
>  Xerces/Xalan as code base. RI contains the implementation of newly  
> introduced Validation Framework [2], XPath APIs [3]
>  , Datatypes [4] implementation, SAXParser, DocumentBuilder,  
> Transformer Reset changes, Secured XML Processing changes.   
>  Implementation of W3C stds. DOM L3 Core, DOM L3 L/S, XML 1.1,  
> XInclude already exist on Apache Xerces. So in the next
>  section I have also proposed the way to merge rest of the JAXP 1.3 RI  
> changes into Apache Xerces & Xalan project.  I have also
>  suggested where implementation component should reside i.e. Xerces or  
> Xalan. Any idea or feedback for the smoother and
>  expedited merger of JAXP 1.3 sources into Apache xml-commons, Xerces  
> & Xalan is very welcome.
>
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 APIs:
>
>  JAXP APIs has been at xml-commons for a long time as these set of  
> APIs are used by many different projects.
>  With JSR 206 declared as final and many new standards emerging, we  
> should update xml-commons to JAXP 1.3
>  APIs. I propose JAXP 1.3 APIs to be committed to xml-commons main  
> trunk and apply a tag.
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI:  (Implementation components that should be part of Xerces)
>
>
>  JAXP 1.3 RI contains the implementation of following packages
>
>  javax.xml.datatype
>  javax.xml.validation
>  javax.xml.parsers ( reset(), xinclude, etc.)
>
>  which should reside at Xerces.
>
>  I propose that we create a branch, and merge JAXP 1.3 RI changes into  
> that branch.  This will help
>  other Xerces active committers to have a chance to look at it before  
> these changes being finally
>  committed to main trunk.  This process would require merging changes  
> to the branch and then committing
>  changes to main trunk, i seek help of active Xerces committers.
>
>
> JAXP 1.3 RI:  (Implementation components that should be part of Xalan)
>
>
>  JAXP 1.3 RI also has the implementation of newly developed XPath  
> (javax.xml.xpath.*) APIs which i think, should be part of
>  Xalan/XSLTC project.  Besdies this, JAXP 1.3 RI also contains changes  
> done in "javax.xml.transform" package
>  for ex. now application can use the same Transformer instance by  
> invoking reset().
>
>  I propose the same for the Xalan/XSLTC project that we create a  
> branch and JAXP 1.3 Reference Implementation changes are
>  put there. This will help other Xalan active committers to have a  
> chance to look at it before these changes being finally
>  committed to main trunk.  Again i seek help of Xalan committers for  
> this process.  
>
>
>  As always, all  feedbacks are more than welcome.
>
>
>  Thanks,
>  Neeraj
>
>
>  [1] http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=206
>  [2]  
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/package- 
> summary.html
>  [3]  
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/xpath/package- 
> summary.html
>  [4]   
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/datatype/package- 
> summary.html
>
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