Marc Portier wrote:
> hm, this comes from the DOMHelper, right?
> (a yes, the subjectline says so)
>
> I remember a discussion in the office, way back when Bruno was working
> up to a first commit-worthy version of Woody...
>
> The decission was between using SAX or DOM for the building of the
> form-model... the arguments at the time were basically:
>
> - pro SAX: location information in the API to allow pointing out errors
> in config files in error-messages
>
> - contra SAX: no streaming required and more difficult then needed for
> this type of thing...
>
> he decided to use DOM, and get the location info from the xerces
> specific implementation of DOM (there should be a line in there that
> does that)
>
Well, I just checked, there is a complete DOMParserer subclass that does
that in fact...
> He's on holiday until monday and can verify then, but I'm pretty sure
> memory serves correctly...
>
so
the answer is: 'yes, depends on xerces'
the reason is: 'providing location information'
the remaining issue: 'where should it be mentioned? gump.xml? docos?'
regards,
-marc=
> regards,
> -marc=
>
>
> Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
>
>> Antonio Gallardo wrote:
>>
>>> Vadim Gritsenko dijo:
>>>
>>>
>>>> antonio@apache.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.Augmentations;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.NamespaceContext;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.QName;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLAttributes;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLLocator;
>>>>> +import org.apache.xerces.xni.XNIException;
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can somebody clarify - does it mean that woody works only with
>>>> xerces? I
>>>> have not seen this limitation mentioned on the prominent place, may be
>>>> I've just missed it...
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't know. I just expanded this import:
>>>
>>> import org.apache.xerces.xni.*;
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I know; I had noticed this issue when you expanded the import. The
>> question was to those who are in the know :-)
>>
>> Vadim
>>
>>
>
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