[Tm4j-developers] XTMPrefixResolver

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

Hi all,

I'm now moving into "release mode" for TM4J 0.9.0 beta 1 (or release
candidate 1 :-). I've managed to isolate pretty much all of the code
that is dependent on JDK1.4, but in the process I have discovered that
the class org.tm4j.topicmap.utils.XTMPrefixResolver needs xalan.jar when
compiling with JDK1.3 - presumably because JDK1.4 ships with Xalan,
there is no real problem for that version of Java.

However, it does mean that we need to include xalan.jar in the distro to
support one class on one version of the JDK, which seems a bit of
overkill to me. The options that I see are:

1) Remove XTMPrefixResolver completely (I don't like that option)

2) Continue to distribute TM4J with xalan.jar

3) Move XTMPrefixResolver into a tm4j-xalan-utils.jar, modify the build
instructions to instruct JDK1.3 users that they will need to get
xalan.jar to compile it.

I quite like the idea of (3) because I have a few ideas for XSLT
extension functions for TM4J which could be implemented for Xalan and/or
Saxon but I would like to just get any comments from y'all before I do
this.

Especially would be intersted to hear from Florian, cos its your code,
mate :)

Cheers,

Kal

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Kal Ahmed <ka...@te...>
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