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RE: SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)

• To: <bob@w...>, "'Amelia A Lewis'" <amyzing@t...>
• Subject: RE: SAX for Binary Encodings (SAD-SAX)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 12:39:39 -0500
• Cc: <simonstl@s...>, <xml-dev@l...>
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At 11:22 AM -0500 11/8/03, Bob Wyman wrote:


>     public interface TypedContentHandler extends ContentHandler {
>       public void values(java.lang.Object value)
>          throws SAXException;
>     }


This won't work. There are numerous problems including:

1. People want primitive data types often instead of objects.
2. It's type unsafe. OBject is not suitable replacement for 
Date/Integer/int/etc.
3. What do you pass when the data doesn't match the schema?


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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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