SAX: ModSAX addition, general property query

[John Wilson]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill la Forge <b.laforge at jxml.com>
To: John Wilson <tug at wilson.co.uk>; XML Developers' List <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: 09 March 1999 12:39
Subject: Re: SAX: ModSAX addition, general property query


>From: John Wilson <tug at wilson.co.uk>
>>I don't think that it's unreasonable to insist that objects representing a
>>Feature, Handler or Property should either implement a distinct interface
or
>>subclass a distinct class. If this is so the Parser can tell what Feature,
>>Handler or Property is being set by enquiring of the type of the object.
(I
>>favour insisting that they subclass distinct classes because (in Java)
that
>>naturally imposes the restriction that a single object can only represent
a
>>single Property.)
>
>
>Filters often implement more than one (generally all) handler interface and
>then register themselves with the underlying parser/filter for the same
events
>requested by the overlaying application/filter.
>
>Your proposal would require the filter to instantiate seperate objects for
each
>set of events it needs to process, though it could simply pass-through the
handlers
>for those it does not.

Certainly you need to instantiate an object per handler, however it need not
be too ugly

public class MyFilter {
  public final DTDHandler dtdHandler = new DTDHandler() {
      ... };
  public final DocumentHandler documentHandler = new DocumentHandler() {
     ... };

....

}

would seem to me to be a reasonable way of dealing with this.

John Wilson
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