[jsword-devel] XML Parsers

[Joe Walker]

>From my perspective jsword hasn't ever had much interest from PDA people.
Maybe you've seen more than me?

Joe.

On 2/20/06, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is it at all important to be able to target hand helds (e.g. pda, phone,
> ...)? (i.e. compile with J2ME)
>
> Right now we cannot, but with a few simple changes, we could have
> jsword.jar and common.jar work on them.
> However, IIRC we have to compile with -target 1.3 which implies -source
> 1.3.
> I think that if we use language features of 5.0, then we have to -source
> 1.5.
>
> I agree that there are a lot of language features in 1.5 that would be
> wins.
>
> Joe Walker wrote:
> >
> > My vote would be to go with Java 5.
> > Other wins for us with Java5:
> > - co-variant return types - we've missed these in the past
> > - much better UI fidelity
> > - enums, etc, etc
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On 2/20/06, *DM Smith* <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
> > <mailto:dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Please give me your thoughts:
> >     Background:
> >         BibleDesktop uses Java WebStart as one of its "installers" and
> >     Java
> >     1.4 or higher.
> >         WebStart and Java 1.4 are written in such a way that the
> built-in
> >     xml parser cannot be replaced.
> >         Java 1.4 uses Crimson for its parser and one has to go to great
> >     lengths to replace it via a wrapper script.
> >         Java 1.5 (aka 5.0) uses Xerces for its parser and it is
> >     designed to
> >     be replaceable, even via WebStart.
> >
> >     Opportunity:
> >         Xerces has capabilities that Crimson does not. A few of these
> >     would
> >     be genuinely useful.
> >         For example:
> >              Xerces allows the programmatic specification of a schema.
> >     (This
> >     would allow us to have a debug mode that could validate fragments
> >     against a schema.)
> >              Xerces provides the ability to get line and offset
> >     information
> >     in error reports.
> >
> >     Do we go to Java 1.5? (At least for Java WebStart?)
> >     Do we stick with source compatibility to Java 1.4?
> >     Do we try to achieve source compatibility with Java 1.3? (This would
> >     allow us to target handhelds. We just need to replace regex and
> >     asserts.)
> >     Do we use the latest and greatest Xerces? (It adds 1,176K + 190K
> >     to the
> >     install size.)
> >
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