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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Kevin Herrboldt <kevin AT puppethead.com>, xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] XOM and Crimson
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:17:47 -0400

At 2:57 PM -0500 6/6/03, Kevin Herrboldt wrote:

Again, shame on Sun for how they bundled it. And why hasn't the
Apache group fixed it?

Because they've ditched Crimson in favor of Xerces. Crimson has
effectively been abandoned. Apparently someone at Sun is still
working on Crimson, because I noticed at least one bug get fixed
between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, but long term Xerces is the way to go.

Is there any documentation anywhere regarding the efficacy of
various parsers? Is the order of parsers in Builder based on quality
of parser? Piccolo is really fast and seems good, but can't
validate. I'm not sure how good Ælfred is, but it's much, much
smaller than Xerces.

Roughly. Piccolo would probably be the default for non-validating XOM
were it not for one annoying bug in DOCTYPE handling that breaks
XOM's unit tests. AElfred also has a lot of bugs in handling basic
XML constructs. It's roughly on par with Crimson for quality. Oracle
I don't really know. It's not open source, so I haven't paid a lot of
attention to it. For the moment, Xerces is the only open source
parser that can pass all of XOM's unit tests.
--

Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA




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