Hi Mukul, Mukul Gandhi <muk...@apache.org> wrote on 10/21/2010 05:47:56 PM:
> Hi Michael, > Thanks for your reply. I've few questions please. > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Michael Glavassevich > <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > > There are other APIs which are better suited for schema directed editing, > > for example DOM Level 3 Validation [1]. You won't find this capability in > > Xerces though. > > When I look at Xerces-J 2.10.0 feature list, about DOM APIs I find > following described on Xerces site (ref "Features of This Release"): > > "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core, Load and Save, (DOM) Level > 2 Core, Events, and Traversal and Range Recommendations". > > So we don't yet implement in Xerces-J "DOM Level 3 Validation API", > which you pointed. Were there any architectural reasons that "DOM > Level 3 validation API" was not found to be fit to be implemented in > Xerces-J? Or we haven't implemented this API in Xerces-J probably due > to other constraints? The primary reason has been lack of interest. A few users have asked about it but it does not seem that the community at large is demanding this support. Just have a look at the Markmail archives [1]. As of right now there are 151 posts (152 when I hit send) which mention it since July 2002 over almost 8,000 software related mailing lists (including all of the Apache ones). About 10% of the posts are from me, replying to other users (and bet some of the others are just replies to those with text quoted from me). More than 25% of them are machine generated messages from Gump [2] (apparently for a DOM Level 3 Validation test suite that was built at one time). 20% seems to be traffic from W3C folks, including DOM working group members. I'm sure that my query misses some abbreviated references (e.g. DOM L3 Val) and indirect ones (e.g. NodeEditVAL) but there just doesn't seem to be much genuine user interest. > -- > Regards, > Mukul Gandhi > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org Thanks.> [1] http://markmail.org/search/?q=%22DOM+Level+3+Validation%22 +order%3Adate-backward [2] http://markmail.org/message/vpu4yegi2yzzfekv Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
