Re: [Tm4j-developers] XTMPrefixResolver

[Florian G. H. <f.g...@gm...>]

On Monday 23 February 2004 22:16, Kal Ahmed wrote:
| 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.

+1. Go right ahead. :-) 

I guess it would also be a good idea to direct users to 
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/faq.html#jdk14 (in case they want to use their 
*preferred* Xalan version rather than whatever ships with the various 
incarnations of JDK 1.4+). 

Cheers,
Florian

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