Re: [stellation-res] XERCES

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 16:04, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> I seem to remember a mention, some time ago,  of a desire to replace JDOM
> with XERCES. Is my memory correct and is there still a case for doing so?
> 

It has been discussed. I'm a bit iffy about the value of doing it 
universally. 

On the one hand, there are some performance problems that we had with
JDOM, and we replaced some of the JDOM code with straight xerces to
ameliorate that problem. Since we had to switch some, we're in the
position of having two different kinds of XML processing code, which
is not ideal.

On the other hand, for most of the Stellation code, including the
Server, the performance of JDOM is perfectly acceptable, and switching
to pure Xerces would make things harder to read, harder to write, and
more error prone.

So... What's the right thing to do? I don't know. For now, I've been
taking the approach of continuing to use JDOM where it seems clearer. If
there's a strong consensus that we should switch to Xerces, I'm fine
with it, but I would like some help in converting the server. There's
an awful lot of XML code in there, and it's not a trivial change.

	-Mark



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> 
> Jonathan
> 
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