Are we ready to resolve the Mod??SAX name?

[Don Park]

I also vote no to package renaming.  While it works, it causes confusion in
practice and in discussions.

Don Park
Docuverse

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Bourret <rbourret at ito.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 8:34 AM
Subject: RE: Are we ready to resolve the Mod??SAX name?


>John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Bill la Forge wrote:
>>
>> > This would force the use of fully qualified names and create
>> > name conflicts for programmers used to simply importing
>> > the classes being used.
>>
>> I suppose if you use "import org.xml.sax.*;" then you have
>> a problem, yes, because you can't just add "import org.xml.opensax.*;"
>> to it.  But if you import individual class names it's no problem:
>> if you use opensax.Parser, you never need to refer to sax.Parser
>> any more, since it is subsumed.
>
>Without even considering the technical merit, this strikes me as a good way
>encourage unsuspecting programmers to introduce errors.  I vote no.
>
>-- Ron Bourret
>
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