Apache and XML

PerlStalker writes: "Information Week has an interesting article about the Apache XML project's role in E-commerce. From the article: 'An important open-source tool for XML parsing and generation is called Xerces, which is being written by the Apache Group, creators of the Apache open-source Web server with input from IBM and other vendors. "Xerces could be very important, because it would provide a readily available set of XML tools that could spread throughout the industry very quickly," [John] Rymer says.'"

or if you don't care about stupid press stories...

[Anonymous Coward]

go look at what is actually being done at http://xml.apache.org/ [apache.org].

XML Development with Tomcat

[wizzy403]

The important thing you have to remember is if you are going to be doing any XSL stuff is that you need to remove *ALL* of the default parsers that come with Tomcat and replace them with the XML/XSL aware versions. Otherwise Tomcat will pitch a fit over you "redefining" how these core classes work and nothing at all will work right.

If you compiled up Tomcat from scratch, be sure to go back and remove all those files you had to put in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext in order to do the build, otherwise you'll get weird exceptions and won't be able to figure out why... (Can you tell what I was doing until *FAR* too late last nite?)

Cool

[einhverfr]

XML is really usefull for certain types of development and currently I have been using PHP to accomplish this. Howeve,r this is not necessary with these tools.

Congrats!

Why Is This an Interesting Article?

[jkroll]

Seriously, other than one small paragraph mentioning Apache (immediately after a larger paragraph mentioning several commercial projects), this article seems to be in the standard "XML is great / XML will revolutionize everything" mode. There really is no substance to the article at all.