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 ... 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. -- ? Chris Burdess "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/attachments/20060213/2b74f015/PGP.pgp