The resolver and serializer are separate components that are released from 
the XML Commons [1] and Xalan [2] projects. Xerces depends on them for XML 
Catalog and DOM Level 3 serialization support. They can be used on their 
own.

[1] http://xml.apache.org/commons/
[2] http://xalan.apache.org/

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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David M Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/02/2007 03:13:22 
AM:

> 
> I work in the Webtools Project in Eclipse, and have for years 
> produced Xerces plugins  for each release of Xerces. (Which in turn is 
> used by other Eclipse plugins). 
> 
> I'm about to do it again, but a little differently ... using an 
> "exploded jar" in an OSGi bundle.  In the simplest case, I'd just 
> create a bundle for 
> every jar in Xerces. This especially makes sense in the cases of 
> xml-apis.jar and xercesImpl.jar since, by design, someone may want 
> to use the APIs, but 
> provide their own implementation. 
> 
> The other two jars are less obvious to me, resolver.jar and the 
> "new" serializer.jar. Are these jars separate for some conceptual or
> distribution reason? 
> For example, do some people use only the resolver all by itself? Or,
> do they "swap in" their own version of resolver.jar? Or, are they 
> separate just due to 
> historical and build reasons, and that conceptually, they could just
> be part of xercesImpl.jar? 
> 
> Thanks, 


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