Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Xerces-J 2.6.0 now available

Arnaud Le Hors <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:54:34 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xerces-j.devel,gmane.text.xml.sax.devel
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Don't bother, I would veto applying such a patch. We need to facilitate 
and encourage adoption of XML 1.1, this is going against it.
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Arnaud  Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.



Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 11:42 AM -0800 11/23/03, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> 
>> How about submitting a patch and a test case for 
>> "http://apache.org/xml/features/allow-XML1.1"?
>> :)
>>
> 
> If the Apache committers were seriously interested in this, I suspect I 
> could write a test case. I'm not sure I know enough about the Xerces 
> internals to write a decent patch for the code itself though. As I said, 
> I'm very nervous about the code I wrote for my own use. But if it were 
> decided that this was a good idea, then I guess I'd be willing to try. 
> Somebody would have to give my code a thorough going over before 
> committing it though.
> 
> I do suspect that this would be better as a general SAX feature. 
> Something like
> 
> http://xml.org/sax/features/allow-XML1.1
> 
> Xerces is hardly the only parser that's likely to need this, after all. 
> I've cc'd the sax-devel list so we can get the relevant discussion going 
> over there.
>