Default XML-parser implementation?

Wed Jun 2 12:15:00 GMT 2004

>>>>I've been browsing around the archives for this subject, but I
>>>>don't seem to be able to find the answer.
>>>>Browsing the libgcj.jar archive I've noticed that the
>>>>"javax.xml.*" packages are not present, so I cannot use the
>>>Have you looked at lib-org-w3c-dom.* and lib-org-xml-sax.*
>>>in the $GCC/lib folder? (Assuming mainline or perhaps GCC 3.4.0.)
>>>I admit that I don't see a JAR for these, but the native
>>>libraries are there.
> These classes are included in libgcj-$version.jar.
So why are these packages present in separate libraries, then?
None of the other packages are...
> They provide the implementations for the org.xml.sax and org.w3c.dom 
> packages. They are included in GNU jaxp too. The important parts in 
> javax.xml parts where never merged from GNU jaxp because of copyright 
> reasons and bloat issues (1).
But there is no xmlreader implementation in there - only implementation 
of the factory-classes, right?
> I thinks it really time to rethink this. Users want/need direct XML 
> support and dont wanna hassle with installing extra stuff.
I sure would want it that way :-)
Or we should put a section into the faq regarding this...
Regards,
 Martin