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Re: ANN: SAX 2.0 extension proposals.

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:14:24 -0500 (EST)

David Brownell writes:

 > If you care about which parser you get, then ask for it.  Else
 > you asked for a default, and you got one.  Anyone who can control
 > a system property can do the same to a class path, but the converse
 > isn't true.  Software setting up a controlled environment for running
 > components (a preferred model) will assemble it at runtime using
 > class loader primitives and such, but can't set system properties
 > differently.

So what you want, I think, is simply a statement to the effect that
it's OK to build your own XMLReaderFactory with the same class name
and shadow the existing one?  I don't see any harm, but is that the
kind of thing that needs to be mentioned explicitly?


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@m...
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