Refactoring SAX 1.0

[David Brownell]

There aren't that many classes in SAX 1.0, and they can be used
as-is without "refactoring" anything at all.  And, importantly,
without sacrificing compatibility.

Or am I missing something in what you're suggesting?

- Dave


andyclar at us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> In working on the IBM XML Parser in Java, we have found that
> a number of classes from the SAX 1.0 API were useful to all
> of our XML parsers, regardless of the higher level parser
> API. For example, entity resolution, error handling, and
> parse location are common to all XML parsers. Even parsing
> a document from an input source is the same.
> 
> We think that it would be extremely beneficial to XML parser
> users to break out the common classes into a separate package.
> In this way, users have consistent access to the XML parser
> and basic parser features even when the results of parsing
> are different. For example,  parsing and error handling are
> common whether the result of the parse is an event stream,
> tree structure, JavaBean, transaction process, etc.
> 
> Since there is ongoing work to define the SAX2 interfaces,
> it seems that now would be the perfect time to address whether
> refactoring the SAX 1.0 classes makes sense.
> 
> Have other users encountered these issues and is there
> interest in refactoring the SAX 1.0 classes in order to take
> advantage of the commonality?
> 
> --
> Andy Clark * IBM, JTC - Silicon Valley * andyclar at us.ibm.com
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