From: Slava P. <sl...@je...> - 2001-07-31 08:07:39
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:42:24PM -0400, David Walend wrote: > Crimson's SAX parser didn't give me the right line or column numbers when I > tried it (the one in jdk 1.4beta). That's why I switched to Xerces. The > parser itself worked fine. But Anything that depended on line and column > numbers, like the XML tree view and error list, was way off. Is this a bug that can be fixed? Since Crimson is open source, maybe you can track it down and send a patch. Another thing is that Crimson is released under the Apache license. I'm not sure if is is compatible with the GPL, used by jEdit. Using it 'indirectly' through jaxp might avoid license issues, as javax.xml will be considered a 'system library' (since it's part of the JDK as of 1.4). One final question for someone in the know about jaxp: what happends if the classes in jaxp.jar are loaded in JDK 1.4? Does it cause problems or not? If it does, then jEdit will have to package and load jaxp.jar separately, which will be a nuiscance. Slava |