I certainly can't speak to all the issues with the different API
implementations and all that, but I'm a big +1 on shipping with Xalan - it
will make using <style> easier and also <junitreport>.

Although I've got xalan.jar (v 2.1.0), xercesImpl.jar, and xmlParserAPIs.jar
in my ANT_HOME/lib and all seems to be working fine, at least with
<junitreport>.

    Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell DeBoer" <darrell@apache.org>
To: "Ant Developers List" <ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: Ant 1.5 Beta1 Sneak Preview ready


> On Thu, 2 May 2002 16:46, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Erik Hatcher <jakarta-ant@ehatchersolutions.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I'm guessing we decided not to ship with Xalan - no big deal, I just
> > > wasn't sure which way we decided.
> >
> > There hasn't been any veto, but I haven't seen any overwhelming
> > support to ship Xalan either 8-)
> >
> > > Thanks Magesh for all the work you have and will put into this
> > > release!!!!
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Stefan
>
> G'day,
>
> I'm tempted to say that we *should* include Xalan, or at least use the
version
> of JAXP from Xalan (xml-apis.jar, which is actually from the xml-commons
> project), instead of the cut-down (parser only) version of JAXP that ships
> with Xerces (xmlParserAPIs.jar).
>
> The way things are now, the process to get <style> working seems to be:
> 1) Copy Xalan.jar into ant/lib
> 2) Delete xmlParserAPIs.jar from ant/lib
> 3) Copy xml-apis.jar from Xalan install into ant/lib
>
> I think this is confusing, and could be a support nightmare, especially if
> people start putting xml-apis.jar and Xalan.jar in their classpath, while
> leaving xmlParserAPIs.jar in ant/lib.
>
> My understanding is that there are some very minor differences between the
> version of JAXP included in xmlParserAPIs.jar and xml-apis.jar, but I'm
> pretty sure that the complete version that ships with Xalan will meet our
> needs sufficiently, at least better than the incomplete version that comes
> with Xerces. I guess the other option is to get the Xalan folks to ship a
> "transform-only" version of JAXP, to complement the "parser-only" version
> from Xerces (or package it up ourselves).
>
> Stephane was doing some research on this a while back, but I think he went
on
> holidays? Here's the start of the thread:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-general&m=101898418819202&w=2
>
> --
> ciao,
> Daz
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