[jdom-interest] Xerces.jar too big [crimson]

[Jon Baer]

Jason -

Can you show an example of HOW to use the Crimson parser with the SAXBuilder?

Thanks.

- Jon

Jason Hunter wrote:

> There's a README in the lib directory that explains what the JARs do.
> You have options other than Xerces, like Crimson.  Xerces just seems to
> be the most stable/robust which is why we include it even though it
> bloats our download.
>
> -jh-
>
> Christian Schmitt wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody !
> >
> > I am using jdom for basic XML reading and mapping to Java objects and
> > since the application should run as an applet I would like to keep the
> > overall size of the application to a reasonable amount. The Xerces
> > parser with its xerces.jar file is quiet big in my opinion (1.4MB) where
> > as the other parts of the application are very small.
> > Are all provided packages really mandatory in order to run jdom or what
> > packages can be removed ? Or does it exist another parser that is more
> > compact ?
> >
> > Many thanks for your help
> > Chris
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