SAX: ModSAX addition, general property query

[John Wilson]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Megginson <david at megginson.com>
To: XML Developers' List <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: 09 March 1999 20:16
Subject: Re: SAX: ModSAX addition, general property query


>John Wilson writes:
>
> > Testing the type at run time is a tivial operation in Java
>
>... but not in other programming languages.
>
> > so I'm not sure why you say that we wouldn't want to rely on
> > descovering the class at run time.
>
>In the end, you're doing the equivalent of testing for a string anyway
>-- you're just letting the Java class name serve as the unique ID.  I
>don't see the advantage of forcing the users to get the unique ID
>through a circuitous route.


You are testing for a value. Testing for a String, a Class or an int are, at
that level, equivalent The issue is: how do you chose the value? It so
happens that Java provides a natural way for us to create a unique value.
Other languages provide other ways of creating the unique value.

John Wilson
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