SAX: towards a solution

Tim Bray tbray at textuality.com
Sun Jan 4 18:10:56 GMT 1998


At 07:51 AM 03/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>We have had an interesting discussion about SAX ("simple API for XML"?
>I cannot remember) the past few weeks, and now it's time to get
>specific. 
>  startElement (String name, java.util.Dictionary attributes)
>  endElement (String name)
>  charData (char ch[], int length)

Sign me up with James on the inappropriateness of the Dictionary,
and also as a supporter of his Attribute interface suggestion.

Also, the charData should be (buf, offset, length) for consistency
with Java culture. -Tim


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