David Walluck wrote: > Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >* Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-08-03 13:13]: > > > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat provides jaxp_parser_impl, but it doesn't > > > require xerces-j2, which seems to actually provide the > > > functionality. > > > > I think gnuxml (or gnujaxp or whatever it's called) provides the > > functionality in libgcj. I could be wrong, though. > > The java-1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm more-or-less ``correctly'' provides > jaxp_parser_impl since the necessary classes are in rt.jar, so > xerces-j2 isn't needed. However, in practice whenever I tried to > build or run packages with the GNU jaxp or transform > implementations, it would fail. Why did it fail? Both ant and eclipse use libgcj's XML code and work fine with it, so I'm guessing it's pretty decent. Cheers, Gary
