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[Wtp-wst-dev] Re: [wtp-jst-dev] Is there a need for a common Xerces plugin?

Lawrence, 

In Eclipse 3.0, we had to remove the org.apache.xerces from the Eclipse 
Platform because of conflicts between the code in the Xerces JAR and the 
built-in XML support from some J2SE 1.4 vendors. Whatever is done here 
should be done in light of these experiences, to make sure we have a 
workable story on all operating environments. For details on the conflict, 
see:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37696

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/porting/incompatibilities.html#Removal%20of%20Xerces%20plug-in

---jim




Lawrence Mandel/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA 
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Hi All, 

There are several validator plugins (being contributed at the end of this 
week) including DTD, WSDL and XSD which rely on the Xerces parser. These 
plugins cannot use generic XML parsing as they need a validating parser 
for DTD and schema files. Currently these plugins all require a base 
plugin which packages Xerces. I'd like to get an idea of who else, if 
anyone, requires Xerces. If there are others I suggest we consider 
creating a base Xerces plugin, such as org.eclipse.wst.xerces, which we 
can all reuse to keep from packaging many copies of Xerces in WTP. 

If you own or know of components/plugins out there which have a 
requirement on Xerces please speak up. 

Thanks, 

Lawrence Mandel

Software Developer
IBM Rational Software - XML Web Services Tooling
Phone: 905 - 413 - 3814   Fax: 905 - 413 - 4920
lmandel@xxxxxxxxxx



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