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Re: [stellation-res] XERCES
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I don't have strong feelings one way or the other on this. I just wanted to
understand the background. FWIW I suspect that if you went to pure XERCES
you would wind up with a support structure that would be a substantial
subset of JDOM.
Regards
Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] XERCES
> 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
>
>
>
> > Regards
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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