Announcement: SAX Java Implementation (pre-release)

[David Megginson]

Paul Prescod writes:

 > True, but "InputStream" and "Reader" are neither well-knowns ADT nor
 > well-defined interfaces outside of the Java world. Suppose a SAX client
 > and server are talking over a CORBA connection. What are the
 > requirements on the object passed to the parseInputStream( ) and
 > parseReader() methods (non-overloaded variants of the parse method).
 > Where are these requirements defined?

James has made this same point somewhat differently.

Here is my question: do we need SAXByteStream and SAXCharacterStream
interfaces?  If so, should SAX also come with default implementations
for each language?


All the best,


David

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