SAX2-beta (2000-01-28)

[David Megginson]

Miles Sabin <msabin at cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

Of the core classes and interfaces, only Parser, AttributeList,
DocumentHandler, and HandlerBase (which is really a helper anyway) are
deprecated.  All of the rest -- InputSource, Locator, EntityResolver,
DTDHandler, ErrorHandler, SAXException, and SAXParseException -- are
left untouched.

> 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?

Actually, most of it is the same.  For the C++ implementation,
obviously, we won't bother with the deprecated interfaces and classes.

> 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.

I haven't ruled out putting something in before SAX2 goes final, but
it has to be very small and very simple.


Thanks for the comments, and all the best,


David

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