SAX2-beta (2000-01-28)

[Miles Sabin]

Hmm ...

I _really_ don't like the way that the SAX1 and SAX2 stuff is 
all mixed up together, particularly since most of SAX1 is 
deprecated.

Like it or not SAX2 is a completely new API, so why not leave 
SAX1 untouched (ie. no @deprecated's) and have a completely 
fresh org.xml.sax2.* tree? 

And I still think there needs to be a SAX2 equivalent of 
ParserFactory ... bizarrely it's easier to create a SAX1
Parser in an implementation independent way than it is to do 
the same for an XMLReader. A couple of people volunteered to 
try out the XMLReaderImplementations stuff I put together, and 
hopefully they'll be able to give some feedback on it to this 
list.

One issue that I hit in putting that together is that there's 
currently no way to determine an XMLReaders feature support 
until _after_ it's been created. That's a bit awkward, since if 
we have multiple implementations available we might want to use 
the feature set to decide which one to instantiate ...

Cheers,


Miles

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