Re: libsax-java, was Re: EJB in jakarta project

[Xavier Renard <Xavier.Renard@ulg.ac.be>]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Gybas wrote:

> IIRC lib-sax-java only contained the SAX 1 interface classes. So if 
> you want the SAX API in a seperate package you should support SAX 
> version 2 (which is compatible with version 1).
>
> As I've already told, I'm planning to split xml-apis.jar (which is 
> created by Xalan2) into a seperate package. But I'd like to move some 
> Java packages to main first (including Ant and Xalan2) so packages 
> don't need to be in contrib just because they need one of the Java XML 
> APIs.
>
> xml-apis.jar contains DOM level 2, SAX version 2, JAXP 1.1 and TRaX. 
> It's only about 100 KB so I don't think it makes sense to split each 
> API into its own package. I can create sysmlinks (sax.jar, dom.jar, 
> jaxp.jar and trax.jar) to xml-apis.jar if that helps.

What about xerces in this case? It already provides DOM,SAX,JAXP but not 
Trax which comes with xml-apis.jar apparently.

Regards

Xavier