SAX 2.0 extension proposals.

[Miles Sabin]

Toby Speight wrote,
> [snip: XMLImplementation and filters]
> It would be nice if Miles gave some thought to this issue.  
> Perhaps it's an insoluble problem; perhaps filters need some 
> additional feature types (or additional queries on those 
> features) to indicate how the the upstream parser's behaviour 
> is modified.

Actually, I don't think there's a problem here. The
org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLFilter itself isn't intended to be
used directly ... it's meant to be extended by SAX applications
(David: I think it should be marked as abstract). That being
so, there's no reason for it to have a corresponding concrete
XMLReaderImplementation.

Now, if you extend it,

  public class MyFilter
    extends XMLFilter
  {
    // override methods as required
  }

you could do something like this,

  public class MyFilterImpl
    implements XMLReaderImplementation
  {
    private XMLReaderImplementation itsBaseImpl;

    public MyFilterImplementation()
    {
      // Locate a base implementation to wrap
      // MyFilter's around.

      itsBaseImpl = 
        XMLReaderImplementations.
          getImplementation(... features wanted ...);
    }

    public boolean supportsBoolean(String name, boolean state)
    {
      // Just pass through here, but we could adapt

      return itsBaseImpl.supportsFeature(name, state);
    }

    public XMLReader createReader()
    {
      return new MyFilter(itsBaseImpl.createReader());
    }  
  }

and add a provider file pointing to MyFilterImpl.

I'm not sure that this solves _all_ the problems, but it looks
like it covers quite a few cases.

Cheers,


Miles

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