Re: [cp-patches] StAX API

[Chris Burdess]

Anthony Green wrote:
> > Further to confirmation by address@hidden, I have committed the XML
> > pull parser API.
>
> This is great - thanks!
>
> Sun is shipping some version of these classes in 1.5:
> http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.5/api/javax/xml/stream/ 
> XMLEventReader.html
>
> But what they're shipping is different from the jsr173 stax 1.0 API:
> https://stax-utils.dev.java.net/nonav/javadoc/api/javax/xml/stream/ 
> XMLEventReader.html
>
> It looks like you've implemented what the JDK 1.5 ships.
>
> I downloaded woodstox (a free StAX implementation) from here:
> http://woodstox.codehaus.org/Download  and tried to build it against
> your API implementation.  It seems to require the stax 1.0 API, which
> includes methods like XMLEvenReader.close().
>
> Can we augment your API implementation to match the stax 1.0 API?   Or
> should we create a fork for the jsr173 implementation?

Actually what's currently in CVS is mostly JWSDP 1.5 compliant. I have  
a patch locally I can apply that should make it 100% JWSDP compliant,  
that's the direction I've been going in so far.

If you want me to make everything jsr173-compliant instead I can do  
that, but then aren't we going to get back into a ridiculous licensing  
situation with BEA? There's no way to retrieve the jsr173 specification  
without agreeing to the BEA clickthrough.

Note that I will include an implementation RSN, if that's your main  
issue wrt the woodstox code.
--
Chris Burdess