Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Xml parser: why com.microstart.xml?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:23:39PM -0400, David Walend wrote:
> Crimson (my first choice for updating the XML plugin) doesn't do a great
> job of pinning down where things are inside the parse. So I had to switch
> to Xerces to get the right line and column numbers.

I would prefer if the XML plugin (or jEdit, eventually) switched to
Crimson. Bundling Xerces with XML makes it too large. Also, the changes
you sent me completely disable the XML error parsing; you removed the
code to add anything to the error source.

> Does anyone have any word of Microstar updating their parser to match JAXP?

I think AElred (the name of Microstar's parser) is intended to be very
small, for use in, eg, applets. While I've found its functionality
sufficent for the most part (DTD validation would be nice, but is not
an absolute necessity for what jEdit uses it for). However, if there
is sufficent demand, I can switch to a better parser in a future
release, as long as it is not too large.

Slava