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Nick, Julien, Alain,<br>
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As said before we'd like to harmonize the XML parsing accross the
GateIn projects. Let's kill this once for all...<br>
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It doesn't mean we would change the existing parsers overnight but
it means we will impose a way for any new parsing (or when we decide
to rewrite a parser).<br>
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If we need parser tools, they will go in Common module ultimately.
There might be a phase when the code will be duplicated (as Nick's
tools need to work on an untouched portal where upgrading common is
not an option).<br>
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We already agreed that StAX as a base was the way to go, I hope we
still agree ;)<br>
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Let's separate in reading/writing XML (doesn't necessarily
necessarily mean marhalling/unmarshalling BTW) and agree on both.<br>
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Reading XML:<br>
Option 1:<br>
Plain StAX, JBoss AS 7 uses that (in fact they use StAX
Mapper, a very lightweight library made by the JBoss AS7 team.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/jbossas/staxmapper/">https://github.com/jbossas/staxmapper/</a> which only helps to work with
multiple namespaces + some little helpers for ignoring part of the
file, format the XML when writing...)<br>
One example of JBoss AS 7 parsing file:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/emuckenhuber/jboss-as/blob/master/web/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/web/WebSubsystemParser.java">https://github.com/emuckenhuber/jboss-as/blob/master/web/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/web/WebSubsystemParser.java</a><br>
Option 2:<br>
Nick's stuff (please explain advantages/drawbacks)<br>
Option 3:<br>
Julien/Alain's stuff (please explain advantages/drawbacks)<br>
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Writing XML:<br>
Option 1:<br>
Plain StAX (well-formed guaranteed over plain Writer)<br>
Option 2:<br>
Nick's stuff (please explain advantages/drawbacks)<br>
Option 3:<br>
Julien/Alain's stuff (please explain advantages/drawbacks)<br>
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Note that there are other utilities and frameworks based on StAX:<br>
Stax-Utils: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stax-utils.dev.java.net/">http://stax-utils.dev.java.net/</a><br>
StaxMate: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.fasterxml.com/StaxMateHome">http://wiki.fasterxml.com/StaxMateHome</a><br>
Apache Axiom: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/">http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/</a><br>
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Thomas<i><br>
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