Re: [Sax-devel] Should I use sax?

[Michael G. <mrg...@ca...>]

Mikael St=E5ldal <mik...@ho...> wrote on 05/23/2006 04:47:36 PM:

> Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> > If you're writing new code, I would avoid using Xerces' native=20
> > serializers. They are non-standard, not particularly well maintained=20
and=20
> > likely to be deprecated [1] soon (perhaps in the next release). JAXP's =


> > TransformerHandler [2] is a much better choice for serializing SAX=20
events.
>=20
> The serialization code in JAXP is from Xalan (the XSLT processor). It=20
> has some problems and gives different results in Java 1.4 and 1.5 in=20
> some cases.

JAXP is an API. I think you mean the Sun implementation which contains a=20
fork of Apache Xalan. The latest version of Xalan may have fixed some of=20
the bugs you found or never had them to begin with.

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrg...@ca...
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