SAX/C++: First interface draft

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb at metis.no>:

>>>>> James Clark <jjc at jclark.com>:
>> One interesting issue is whether to provide a virtual destructor.  I
>> think the safest solution is not to provide a virtual destructor but
>> instead to declare but not define a private operator delete.  This makes
>> it a compile time error to do:

>> DTDHandler *p;
>> // ...
>> delete p;

> [snip! problems with virtual destructors in dispatching DocumentHandlers]

Another place this might be a problem, is when throwing exceptions.
How long do the exception objects live?  Are they copied?  Are they
deleted? 

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