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

Slava Pestov wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:42:24PM -0400, David Walend wrote:
> > Crimson's SAX parser didn't give me the right line or column numbers when I
> > tried it (the one in jdk 1.4beta). That's why I switched to Xerces. The
> > parser itself worked fine. But Anything that depended on line and column
> > numbers, like the XML tree view and error list, was way off.
>
> Is this a bug that can be fixed? Since Crimson is open source, maybe you
> can track it down and send a patch.

Slava,

I fixed it by switching to the giant Xerces library. Ugh. "If at first you don't
succeed, use a bigger hammer."

> One final question for someone in the know about jaxp: what happends if
> the classes in jaxp.jar are loaded in JDK 1.4? Does it cause problems or
> not? If it does, then jEdit will have to package and load jaxp.jar
> separately, which will be a nuiscance.

I got link errors in the past, but don't remember the specifics. If no one else
knows off the top of his head, I'll find out and report in when I try out Xerces
1.4.2 later this week.

Dave