XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Steve Loughran" <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 29/03/07, Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:
> > I might be able to work around that one. I'll have to think
> > about it. I could notice if the parser is Crimson and, if it
> > is, strip off any initial UTF-8 byte order mark before
> > passing it to the parser.
>
> Personally, I think that patching up defects in other products is usually
> the wrong thing to do. Better to leave it alone, as another incentive for
> people to move forward to later releases.
>
> There might be an exception where someone is offering you good money to do
> it, but even then I would tend to put the solution in a free-standing
> component - an InputStreamReader that people can use as a filter for their
> Crimson input if they wish - and not in a component that itself has no
> responsibility for XML parsing.

Crimson is dead code; it doesnt build on Java 5, and nobody should go
near it. It was OK for the time, but the time was five or six years
ago.