At 4:10 PM +0000 11/23/03, Michael Kay wrote:
>> Can any one know the importance of crimson package in j2sdk1.4.1.
>
>No, they can't.
>>
>> what is the difference between xerces and crimson.
>
>Others may disagree, but my perception is that Xerces is bigger, slower,
>has more features and fewer bugs.
I'll second that. By my count, Xerces-J currently has one bug in
basic XML parsing. (It doesn't report default attribute values from
the internal DTD subset in invalid documents.) Its nearest
competitor, the latest Oracle beta, has about ten such bugs. All
other parsers I've tested are worse.
FYI, you can cut out large chunks of Xerces when building it if you
don't need them to make leaner and meaner parser. Some of its pieces
like the WML DOM are really quite unnecessary for most uses.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
