Default XML-parser implementation?

Wed Jun 2 16:40:00 GMT 2004

Michael Koch wrote:
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>> Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 16:39 schrieb Dalibor Topic:
>>>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.
>>> No.
>> GNU jaxp is not fully imported into libgcj yet. It's completely in GNU 
> classpath but not in libgcj.

Oops. Thanks for setting my mistake straight!
cheers,
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