DOM - Creating Documents

[Paul Prescod]

Miles Sabin wrote:
> 
> 
> We could have a DocumentFactory interface that looked
> like this,
> 
>   interface DocumentFactory
>   {
>      Document createDocument();
>   }
> 
> But then how do we get hold of a concrete instance of
> this factory interface so that we can call the method?
> We can't.

The non-standard line of code to get a single, reusable DocumentFactory
would be invoked once per program. The code to generate new documents
could be in many different places and might be invoked over and over
again.

-- 
 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
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