[fedora-java] gnuxml -> xerces/xalan?

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:41 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
 > > From my perspective, a large percentage of our libgcj issues are
 > > xml-related.  Is there any way we could put xerces and/or xalan (or
 > > whatever) in the endorsed dir and make those our default for F7?
 > 
 > Which bug report are still pending? I have CCed Chris who might know
 > more about the state of any bugs. We do have some conformance tests on
 > builder which seem to indicate that the GNU XML libraries are in parts
 > more standards compliant (although I guess that doesn't help if your
 > application isn't using xml in a compliant way).
 > http://builder.classpath.org/xml/ These tests aren't automatically run,
 > but we could enable them in the daily builds.
 > 
 > And a slight problem with the alternative libraries is that at least for
 > GPl applications xerces and/or xalan come under an incompatible license
 > (GPLv3 will be compatible, but no applications use that yet). But we can
 > try to make only non-GPL works based on these libraries use them I
 > guess.

I think we ought to do some testing and decide what do do based on
that.  Andrew, if you can detect some hosage that is fixed by xerces
and/or xalan, let us have the testcases.

Andrew.