Ya, what is the deal with that. I installed xerces 1.0.4 into VAJ and it broke just about every thing in C2, Tomcat and others. The getRawName being instantly changed to getQName is a real thorn. I would think that there would be some backwards compatiblity. 

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:bloritsch@infoplanning.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:28 PM
> To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Plans for Xerces beyond 1.0.3?
> 
> 
> I vote -1 until Xalan has an official release that supports Xerces 1.0.4.
> A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread in the Xalan-dev list that
> basically acknowledged that the current release doesn't support 
> Xerces 1.0.4.
> 
> rubys@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > What are the plans to step up to a release of Xerces after 1.0.3?
> > Apparently in Xerces 1.0.4, the Attributes.getRawName method 
> was renamed.
> > When compiling against a later Xerces, I get the following errors:
> >
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/xml/util/Docume
ntHandlerWrapper.java:139:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >
> >    a.getRawName(x),
> >                                                                 
>          ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/xml/util/DOMBui
lder.java:255:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >                String araw=a.getRawName(x);
> >                                        ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/filters/LogFilt
> er.java:155:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >                     +",raw="+a.getRawName(i)
> >                                          ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/sitemap/LinkTra
nslator.java:136:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >
> >    a2.addAttribute(a.getURI(x),a.getLocalName(x),a.getRawName(x),
> >    ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/serializers/HTM
LSerializer.java:104:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >                String
> >    name=this.ns.resolve(a.getURI(x),a.getRawName(x),null,
> >                                                                    ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/cocoon/serializers/XML
Serializer.java:113:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >                
> this.print(this.ns.resolve(a.getURI(x),a.getRawName(x),null,
> >                                                                   ^
> >    
> /home/rubys/xml-cocoon/build/src/org/apache/arch/config/SAXConfigu
rationBuilder.java:130:
> >
> >    Method getRawName(int) not found in interface org.xml.sax.Attributes.
> >                String
> >    aname=resolve(a.getURI(x),a.getLocalName(x),a.getRawName(x));
> >
> > Also, would anybody object to me making the usage of javascript, jstyle,
> > and svg conditional based on their presence in the class path?
> >
> > - Sam Ruby
>