Aaron, "Pieper, Aaron" <piep...@pragmatics.com> wrote on 04/07/2011 12:27:10 PM:
> I was trying to figure out why certain XML validation operations had > gotten slower, so I was digging into Xerces? source when I noticed > it didn?t have line number attributes. I was directed to the > previous discussion at http://markmail.org/thread/qkbaup5dzjrx5ffj > which indicates that the decision was made to omit these attributes, > in order to reduce jar file size. This makes sense, although it?s > curious that no other apache projects (such as such as Spring or CXF > ) have taken a similar direction, despite having much larger JAR files. I can't speak for what others do. Each project community decides what's best for it. > I don?t mind checking out and build the debug versions of the Xerces > libraries myself, and indeed I?ve already done so. But maybe for > future releases, it would make sense to make these ?debug jars? > available as separate resources on the download page, for easier > access? Or maybe it makes sense to make the ?debug jars? as the > default ones, and to have the smaller ?non debug? jars available as > separate resources? Sure, that's possible for a future release. > Thanks, > > - Aaron > Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org
