ModSAX (SAX 1.1) Proposal

[David Megginson]

Love it or hate it, here goes...

I propose that SAX 1.1 (aka ModSAX) add the following three core
classes and interfaces to SAX 1.0 in the org.xml.sax package:


  public interface ModParser extends Parser
  {
    public abstract void setFeature (String featureID, boolean state)
      throws SAXNotSupportedException;

    public abstract void setHandler (String handlerID, ModHandler handler)
      throws SAXNotSupportedException;
  }


  public interface ModHandler
  {
    // yup, it's empty...
  }


  public class SAXNotSupportedException extends SAXException
  {
    // yup, it's empty...
  }


I'm going to disappear now until Wednesday, so I'll let everyone chew
on these for a while until I have time to offer explanations and
arguments later this week.  

No, I haven't forgotten namespaces, or DTD information, or lexical
information, or anything else.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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