New build complete... testing in progress.

Hey all... After a few configuration frustrations I have things in order and have a new build of Saxon.NET version 8.1.1 that I am now running through the test sequence. While I generally have expected to find little things that need to be adjusted my gut it telling me that the little things of the past (mostly issues dealing with URI`s and such) are more than likely a thing of the past as both the GNU project and IKVM.NET project have filled in massive holes over the past 4 months. Actually things, for the most part, seemed to be fairly straight forward and most of my little hacks were subsequently looking as if they would no longer be needed a couple of months ago. I have left them in for now (did`nt change one line of code from my earlier updates from a few months back ... I`ll include this in the download when the testing sequence has been verified) as given 8.2 is now the primary focus it doesn`t make sense at this point to spend any time cleaning up an old code base (unless of course this remains the primary base while I work on the XOM stuff).

Regarding 8.2... I am going to make every attempt possible to leave the 8.2 source code as is for the first build. The second build my focus is on bringing usage of System.Xml directly into the Saxon Java source via the conversion of System.Xml to a stubbed class jar file (which is actually already taken care of by Jeroen along with mscorlib) that can be imported into your Java project and accessed just like you would a standard java class via the import keyword. The focus of course will be to make any necessary changes to the Saxon source code such that it recognizes XmlDocument() as a DOM structure and as such uses this as its primary DOMDocument. By then recompiling the base using IKVMC we should be able to eliminate the necessity to use the current string hack that is in place (I will include this sample code as well). This, of course is all perfect world situation but I have no reason to believe that it won`t simply just work so I guess we shall see.

More here in a bit once tests have been passed.