[jdom-interest] Failing tests

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 1:23 PM -0700 4/7/02, Philip Nelson wrote:


>Right now I am trying to convince ant and junit that it's ok to use different
>xml parsers and different jdom jar files.  I should be done with that soon.
>Then I am going to try and add in the Canonicalizer from the XML 
>Security suite
>that should make certain types of testing much easier by allowing document
>comparisons with document produced by jdom and non jdom code.
>

Be really careful with that. My experience has been that the XML 
Security Suite   is a mess, and is dependent on very specific 
versions of Xerces and Xalan, and not necessarily the ones that were 
actually released. It's given me nothing but trouble.

About a year ago I started work on a CanonicalXMLOutputter subclass, 
and put it aside when I found some things needed for that that JDOM 
just couldn't handle. Maybe I should pick that up again and see what 
a difference a year makes.
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