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Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser

From: Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:49:58 -0700

The problem is that I don't want to require Java 1.5 (or JAXP 1.2.6, which also has these renamed packages) to compile or run XOM. Thoughts? Suggestions?

I guess there's no way round the compile time requirement. Try this:

- Have build.xml only compile JDK15XML1_0Parser into the jar if the java version matches 1.5
- Do a Class.forName trick at runtime to detect if com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser is available (simply checking for java.version 1.5 might break a future IBM JDK)
- When you make a release compile on 1.5 with the javac 1.4 compat switches on

[XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/13/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/13/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/14/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/14/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] JDK 1.5 with xom and no external parser, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/15/2004