[jsword-devel] jdom removal

[Chris Burrell]

To put in a argument for the other side, I use quite a few xslts to
transform the XML to HTML directly. I have a few highly-paremeterized
 stylesheets to allow for lots of cool displays. Given I'm developing
mainly a webapp in a browser, running the XSL on the server and outputting
straight HTML is a big win for us.

Chris


On 4 September 2012 10:15, Joe Walker <joe at eireneh.com> wrote:

>
> Sigh - I think the document model in JSword is one of the things I most
> consistently got wrong. If I remember correctly we started with a standard
> API, then JAXB then JDOM.
> At the time XML seemed like The Future, however there seems to be more and
> more that argues against that vision for JSword:
> - Android display works around the JSword API to avoid XML
> - Swing uses the horribly broken JEditorPane (?) and its display is
> probably the worse for it
> - Even using XML for JSword on the web, which should be a sweet spot, has
> (had?) problems like getting reliable XSLT in browsers.
>
> We're going to need some sort of document object model, and given the
> existence of OSIS, some sort of ability to serialise it to XML makes some
> sense, but perhaps we should consider an object model that is somewhat
> closer to the storage model than the display model.
>
> Joe.
>
> On 3 Sep 2012, at 22:20, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like from your notes that there is more opportunity than just
> replacing JDOM, but rather not building a DOM at all. Maybe you and Douglas
> can collaborate?
>
> In Him,
> DM
>
> On Sep 3, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Martin Denham <mjdenham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would be good to remove JDOM.  When working on the first versions of
> And Bible I had to bypass the JDOM DOM creation to improve performance on
> low powered Android devices, but my simple workaround only worked for
> simple, well structured OSIS bibles.
>
> I made a few rough notes<http://code.google.com/p/and-bible/wiki/AmendmentsToJSwordForAndroid> on
> it at the time.
>
> I don't think Android includes a StAX library, but it does include a
> similar efficient XML Pull library and it would probably be possible to
> include a StAX library with And Bible.  I could do some investigation and
> experiments if this approach was seriously under consideration.
>
> Martin
>
> On 3 September 2012 15:35, Douglas Campos <qmx at qmx.me> wrote:
>
>> Howdy!
>>
>> I was talking with DM wrt removing jdom and using org.w3c.* APIs instead
>> (more portable, less deps), and he asked me to post it here :)
>>
>> Any objections? (I'm assuming I'll fix BD too)
>>
>> Blessings,
>> -- qmx
>>
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