James Duncan Davidson wrote:
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> > Hmmmm, people. What about removing the xml.jar package alltogether?
>
> I agree with this statement totally -- I don't think that we need to have it
> in the workspace even for bootstrap purposes. I think that in order to
> bootstrap Ant, we should just require that there be a JAXP compliant parser
> on the classpath. I don't think that's an unreasonable requirement for
> bootstraping.
>
> > I mean: Xerces is faster and more solid that the Sun ProjectX, plus,
> > it's been continuously maintained.. which is not the case for ProjectX.
>
> Have to argue with you there... Which is faster depends on which benchmark
> :) -- some benchmarks should be run with the new ProjectX coming out soon.
> :)
Well what James is referring to here is the JAXP RI which is based on
Project X.
- Rajiv
>
> Now, a better argument is that Xerces is a fellow Apache project and it's
> pretty damn good. I'll take that argument :) But as long as we use JAXP, it
> really doesn't mater.
>
> .duncan
>
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UNIX _is_ user friendly,
he's just very picky about who his friends are.
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