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Re: SAX: Java Package org.xml.sax

• From: Antony Blakey <antony@n...>
• To: Toby Speight <tms@a...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:10:04 +1030

Toby Speight wrote:
> Minor (very minor) nitpick: IINM, the Java language specification
> recommends that the first (most significant) component of the domain
> name be written with uppercase letters, and the remainder with
> lowercase ones[1].  So the package name would be "ORG.xml.sax".

Sun have deprecated this behaviour. They now recommend lower case. One
problem is that when creating archives on a case-insensitive system such
as Windows, it's very easy to end up with lower case in the archive,
which is NOT case insensitive when accessed by the classloader.

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• References:
  • Re: SAX: Naming and Packaging (question 10 of 10)
    • From: "Don Park" <donpark@q...>
  • Re: SAX: Naming and Packaging (question 10 of 10)
    • From: Jon.Bosak@e... (Jon Bosak)
  • SAX: Java Package org.xml.sax
    • From: David Megginson <ak117@f...>
  • Re: SAX: Java Package org.xml.sax
    • From: Toby Speight <tms@a...>

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