Hi Chris, Chris Burdess wrote: > Chris Burdess wrote: > >>> the current Stax API in classpath is JWSDP compliant. I am currently >>> about to >>> package dom4j for debian and found that the Stax part is not >>> compiling against >>> GNU classpath because of some missing methods. >>> >>> Is there anything preventing the support of the JSR173 API. This >>> looks like >>> it only has some additional methods. It also seems that SUN will >>> include the >>> JSR173 API in java 1.6. >> >> >> There was some discussion about this a while ago and it was decided >> to match the JWSDK API specification instead of JSR173 as more real >> world applications appeared to target Yes, I remember this discussion. > > ... the JWSDK API. The JSR173 methods are simply commented out in the > code, so if/when JSR173 becomes the standard, it will be trivial for us > to match it. So would it be possible to support both API's as of now in our implementation ? It would be nice if we could get dom4j running also on gnu classpath with its stax backend. Wolfgang
