SAX: do we want a base class (was Re: SAX: towards a solution)

[James Clark]

David Ornstein wrote:

> >I am also assuming that we will provide not only a callback interface,
> >but also an (optional) base class with stub methods that implementors
> >can override as needed; that means that novice users will not have to
> >implement all of SAX, even if we do end up with nine or ten methods.
> 
> This worries me.  My interest is in implementations of SAX-clients in C++.
> Will I have, as part of somebody's SAX implementation that I'm using, this
> (optional) base class available to me too? 

In C++ I can't see any need for a base class separate from the
interface. You can just have a single class which provides empty
definitions for all virtual functions.

James



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