RFC: Simple XML Event-Based API for Java

[Paul Prescod]

David Megginson wrote:
> The advantage is that the same XmlApplication object can work with
> more than one XmlProcessor at the same time (though it is not required
> to be able to do so).

If you use the name "Application" then it makes sense to require a
single application to support multiple processors. Jade is an example of
an application that supports multiple processors. If we use the word
***Consumer, then it makes sense that there should be a single consumer
per Producer.

>  > This could be done by having the app ask the processor for the location
>  > of the last event in some non-standardized way, but that's kind of
>  > kludgy.  On the other hand, maybe this is just too fancy for a
>  > "simple" API.
> 
> I think that it probably is too fancy.

Maybe, but it also seems very important. A processor that can't tell you
where your errors are is very frustrating. Perhaps there should
immediately be a "level 2" that supports this.
 
 Paul Prescod



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