• From: Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:42:44 GMT

[Toby Speight]
>
>We're returning one of a bounded, known set of values.  I'd prefer to
>use an int for this type of thing, along with a set of constants.
>I.e.
>
>    public abstract String getType (int index);
>    public static final int CDATA = 0;
>    public static final int NMTOKEN = 1;
>    // etc.
>
>The only advantage a String has over this is that you can meaningfully
>present it to the user as it is.  A disadvantage of String is that it is
>computationally expensive to compare for equality (or equivalently, and
>worse, to switch() on it).


If ints are going to be used, lets use values that can
be bit-twiddled.










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