RE: Re[2]: Xerces 1 use in XMLC

Jacob Kjome <hoju@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> work.  Heck, you should be able to use Crimson. However, if your packages 
> do you xerces extensions (like xmlc-2.1 does) then you will marry yourself 
> to a particular version of Xerces.  Hopefully future releases of XMLC can 
> get away from that dependency.
> 

This is currently not possible for two reasons:
   1) Neither the DOM nor SAX-2 APIs provide all of the document data.
      In particular, the DTD information is not available.  I guess one
      might be able to get away from this by parsing the DTD separately,
      although this seems like it might create a seperate set of problems.

   2) XMLC classes extend the DOM classes.  This really isn't a parser
      depencency; as long as the code is using the SAX API, one should
      be able to mix one DOM implementation with a different parsers.
      However the DOM API version problems could make this problematic.