[Biojava-l] [IMPORTANT!] Flipping the Xerces switch

[Thomas Down]

Comments about Xerces have been positive, so I've now
switched the CVS HEAD of BioJava to use Xerces-J 1.1.3
as the standard XML parser.  Sun's old parser (`xml.jar')
will remain the standard for the 1.0 branch.

For CVS users:

  - Next time you update, be sure to update the full repository.
    You should see a `xerces.jar' file.

  - After updating, recompile the build tool:

      javac build/Builder.java

    You can then recompile the Xerces version of BioJava in
    the normal way.

  - When running BioJava applications, add xerces.jar to
    your CLASSPATH in place of the old xml.jar

Having switched to xerces, there should be no visible change
in existing code.  However, developers are now free to check
in XML code which uses the SAX2 or DOM level 2 APIs.
    
Let me know if this causes any trouble.

Happy hacking,
    Thomas.
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