Default XML-parser implementation?

Wed Jun 2 14:40:00 GMT 2004

Michael Koch wrote:
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>> Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 14:15 schrieb Martin Egholm Nielsen:
>>>>>>>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...
>>> To allow usage of these parts natively compile from outside of libgcj 
> and because of license reasons I think.
>> With the new BC-ABI this will hopefully don't matter anymore.
>>>>>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 think so, yes.

The default parser is Aelfred, included in GNU JAXP. I'd assume that it 
is in GCJ too, since GCJ imported GNU JAXP wholesale, I believe.
cheers,
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