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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.2//EN" "document-v12.dtd">
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<document>
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<header>
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<title>External Components</title>
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<authors>
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<person name="Shane Curcuru" email="curcuru@apache.org"/>
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</authors>
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</header>
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<body>
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<section id="overview">
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<title>Overview</title>
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<p>xml-commons provides an Apache-hosted set of DOM, SAX, and JAXP interfaces for use in
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other xml-based projects. Our hope is that we can standardize on both a common version and
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packaging scheme for these critical XML standards interfaces to make the lives of both
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our developers and users easier.
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</p>
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<p>The External Components portion of xml-commons contains interfaces that
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are defined by external standards organizations. For DOM, that's the W3c; for SAX it's
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David Megginson and sax.sourceforge.net; for JAXP it's Sun. While we could send users to
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each of the primary sources for these deliverables, keeping our own versions of these in
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the xml-commons repository gives us a number of advantages:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Simplicity of downloads: users get the whole product from one place.
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</li>
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<li>Better version control: we can only take fixes we want, and add Apache-specific changes.
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</li>
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<li>Better overview documentation of how these interfaces fit into the XML processing world.
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</li>
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<li>More chance for cross-project community building within Apache projects.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<fixme author="curcuru">In progress. See the commons-dev-at-xml.apache.org mailing list
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for our current progress at updating the structure of the xml-commons project. Volunteers
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to help with the documentation set appreciated as well!
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</fixme>
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<p>Currently, we provide just the native sets of javadoc from each of these external
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sets of code, plus whatever native documentation provided.
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We also include LICENSE and README files for each set of code from
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an external source.
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</p>
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</section>
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</body>
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</document>
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