XML Java API Standardization

[Eric Baatz - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS]

John Tigue,

Although it isn't part of the abstract XML parsing issue, I was
struck by your proposal's use of streams for input.  Given the
Unicode-ness of Java and XML's explicit support for multiple
character encodings, the JDK 1.1 Reader class seems like a
perfect fit for XML parsers.  They are more efficient than byte
streams, and they handle conversion between local encodings
and Unicode.  With streams, it seems like your document also
needs to proscribe how Unicode characters (or other multi-byte
encodings) are encoded in byte streams or how to identify the
encoding of a stream, so I can use the same input for different
parsers.

P.S.  Yes, my current XML "documents" include characters outside
of Latin-1, so I have to convert them before passing them through
the parser I've been using, NXP.


Eric Baatz
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