[jdom-interest] Schema validation with JAXP 1.2 and JDOM

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 6:32 PM +0100 2/28/03, Laurent Bihanic wrote:
>Qestion: Now that JAXP is standard, i.e. part of the JDK since 1.4 
>and delivered with nearly every parser, why not remove this 
>reflection code from SAXBuilder and make plain Java calls to the 
>JAXP API (the way the transform package already does) ?


I've suggested this before, and Jason's concern then was that JAXP is 
not open source, and it's licensing has caused some issues for the 
XML Apache Project. It's apparently not 100% certain that future 
releases of Xerces-J will support JAXP, especially if they want to 
support DOM Level 3 and other cool new features.

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