Re: gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory not there

[Chris Burdess <dog@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2008/5/13 Robert Schuster <theBohemian@xxxxxxx>:
> > Hi,
> >  javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory declares:
> >
> >  public static final String DATATYPEFACTORY_IMPLEMENTATION_CLASS =
> >  "gnu.xml.datatype.JAXPDatatypeFactory";
> >
> >  The value is a fallback value which is treated as a class which is to be
> >  instantiated. Unfortunately this class does not exist.
> >
> >  Has this class been renamed or has it really not been written yet?
> 
> The package doesn't seem to exist and I don't recall us having any
> datatype support.
> I guess the factory was just added so other factories would be able to
> operate using
> GNU Classpath.

This package was added to the API fairly recently. We don't have support
for it yet although there is a relatively complete datatype
implementation in gnu.xml.validation.datatype which could probably be
easily adapted to this new API.
-- 
Chris Burdess