RE: [Springide-eclip-developer] Spring IDE Extensions - Search: Feedback

[Watkins, D. <dav...@fa...>]

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> Hhm, I'm not sure if exposing Xerces might have side effects,=20
> e.g. with other plugin shipping with a different version of=20
> Xerces like XmlBuddy.
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Not sure, I thought the way Eclipse handles plugin=20
classpaths should prevent this scenario.... =20

> Is it sufficient for you to use the built-in XML parser of=20
> JDK 1.4 (Apache Crimson)?
> The only reason why Spring IDE core ships with it's own copy=20
> of Xerces is because Crimson doesn't support DOM level 3.
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....however this is probably a better idea.  I'll look into it. =20
Was thinking of using an alternative approach anyway, so I can=20
avoid the 'unwanted optional attributes' problem I was talking=20
about in an earlier posting.

Cheers,
  dw