Re: MSXML is tied to Windows

Joe Lapp (jlapp@acm.org)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:04:47 -0500

At 11:15 AM 11/14/1997 -0800, you wrote:
>Windows dependency of MSXML is minimal. All you have to do is following:
>[...]
>WIth above two changes, you will end up with a pure-Java version of MSXML.
>MSXML is the most complete XML parser available right now and you get the
>source code on top of it. I would be smiling by now if I were you :-)

How 'bout that! Microsoft's EULA even grants us the right to redistribute
such modified code. Quite generous of them, I must say. Microsoft just
went up a point in my rating system. I am indeed smiling now. :-)

My apologies to the MSXML team.

--
Joe Lapp (Java Apps Developer/Consultant)
Unite for Java! - http://www.javalobby.org
jlapp@acm.org


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