8004371: (props) Properties.loadFromXML needs small footprint XML parser as fallback when JAXP is not present

[Paul Sandoz]

On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

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> Joe sent me an update with changes to address issues discussed so far, I've put the webrev here:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8004371/webrev.02/
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> Joe - the classes you sent me were in different packages, also the formatting was a bit messed up in several classes, I've fixed up those issues so you may need to re-base from the patch file included in the webrev.
> 

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8004371/webrev.02/src/share/classes/jdk/internal/util/xml/PropertiesDefaultHandler.java.html

Why are the element qualified names compared ignoring case?

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http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8004371/webrev.02/src/share/classes/java/util/Properties.java.sdiff.html

What if there is a ServiceConfigurationError thrown in loadProviderAsService?

Need to be very careful of errors on static initialization of the Properties class.

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We need tests with invalid documents. I did not check if there are already such tests present.

Paul.