[MPEG7AudioEnc-devel] MP7DocumentBuilder vs. MP7Writer

[Holger C. <cry...@ie...>]

Hello MPEG7AudioEnc-Developers!

I am currently thinking of creating the XML-tree of the MPEG-7 description as 
a "org.w3c.dom.Document" and not as a "de.crysandt.xml.XMLNode".

Advantages of "org.w3c.dom.Document":
The Document has the advantage that it is part of the java implementation. It 
needs a XML-Parser. But they are included by default (java2 1.4: crimson; 
java2 1.5: xerces). But it is also possible to use other XML-Parser (set 
property "org.xml.sax.driver"). I have heard Oracle has its own. With this 
implementation it is no problem to use this one if the user has any benefit 
using it.

Disadvantages of "org.w3c.dom.Document":
When I first started the project, I was not familiar with XML (Now I am an 
expert ;-) ). So I wrote my own XML-Tree which is faster than the Document but 
supports much less features.

IMHO we should change from "de.crysandt.xml.*" to "org.w3c.dom.*". I can 
convert the MP7Writer class to MP7DocumentBuilder (I already started).

Any comments, suggestions, ...? Please let me (us) know.

Regards

Holger