Chris Simmons <c...@corefiling.com> wrote on 11/23/2009 06:20:23 AM:
> > It is in Xalan. Their serializer started as a copy of the Xerces one > > (even has similar package names: org.apache.xml.serialize vs. > > org.apache.xml.serializer). We didn't want to duplicate the effort > > anymore and decided to combine forces and the Xalan one was chosen as > > the common codebase because it was better maintained and was making > > significant improvements to performance. Its LSSerializer > > implementation was written by a Xerces committer and I have made > > improvements and fixes to it too where I've found issues, so it's > > being jointly maintained, though in a different project. This is the > > alternative. It *is* an LSSerializer and there is no reason that it > > can't be updated / fixed to have similar behaviour, but that's only > > likely to happen if users report the problems they're having (patches > > are welcome), preferably in JIRA. > > > If only that were true. I raised a bug (which included a patch) over > two years ago due to different behaviour between the Xerces/Xalan > LSSerializer but it has seemingly been ignored. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2409 > > I wonder if LSSerializer bugs are falling between the cracks? Xalan has been relatively dormant the last couple years (developers busy at their day jobs and elsewhere), so yes it's been awhile since things have moved but there's recently been interest in revitalizing the project and potentially two new committers who seem eager to get things rolling again. b > Chris Simmons. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
