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Re: SAX - endDocument() confusion again

• To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: SAX - endDocument() confusion again
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 23:38:31 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>, <sax-devel@l...>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
To: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
Cc: <xml-dev@l...>; <sax-devel@l...>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:33 PM


> At 6:43 PM -0500 2/27/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> 
> >>  Even in the indefinite future,. I think the real way to handle this
> >>  is a stack of nested exceptions thrown by parse().
> >
> >Would this solve the problem of propagating the error info through
> >a chain of filters?
> 
> I think it could. Each layer just catches the exception thrown by the 
> underlying layer, wraps it in a new exception, and tosses it to the 
> layer above it (unless it wants to fix the problem somehow. Right now 
> I'm toying with the idea of an XMLFilter that fixes all the bugs I've 
> uncovered in Xerces, including incorrect exception handling.)

I thought of the reverse direction.
How would a filter *down* the chain deal with an "end of parsing"
if it doesn't know why parsing stopped. Was it the end of the document?
Was there an exception? I think someone else pointed that out already,
but I missed the name.

Karl

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