[cp-patches] RFC: Decouple DOM HTML parser from Swing

[Roman Kennke]

Hi,

I notice that the HTML parser in gnu.xml.dom.html2 depends on
gnu.javax.swing and javax.swing packages. That is because it basically
extends the Swing HTML parser. The problem that I have is that we (==
Aicas) also would like to build with GUI-less configurations, that means
without AWT and Swing. The situation now is that ripping out AWT and
Swing also means ripping out the whole DOM stuff because of this
dependency.

Ideally I would like to have an independent DOM HTML parser, and let the
Swing HTML parser extend that, instead of doing it the other way round.
I already contacted Audrius in private for suggestions on solving this
dependency problem. My solution for now is to decouple the dependency by
detecting and loading the DomHTMLImpl dynamically. Is this ok to check
in?

2005-08-25  Roman Kennke  <address@hidden>

        * gnu/xml/dom/DomImpl.java
        (hasFeature): Dynamically detect if there actually is a HTML
        parser implementation present.
        (getFeature): Dynamically load the DomHTMLImpl. This decouples
        the XML/HTML packages from the Swing packages.

/Roman

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