[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: YAXPAPI (Yet Another XML Parser API)- an XDEV proposal
Tim Bray writes: > At 09:01 PM 13/12/97 -0500, David Megginson wrote: > >I have worried about this myself. My design goal with Ælfred has been > >to limit myself to two class files: one for the parser itself, and one > >for the interface for the callbacks -- hence the separate event for > >attributes. This decision has forced some pretty severely hacked-up > >internal code accompanied by very careful documentation. > > Hmm, isn't this what JAR and so on are for? Seems like an awfully > severe design constraint. I certainly agree with "small" as a design > goal, but it seems like limiting class file count carries a pretty > high price. - Tim It is a painfully high price, especially in terms of coding difficulty; if NS 3.*, NS 4.*, MSIE 3.*, MSIE 4.*, and HotJava all accepted the JAR files (or any other archive format), then I wouldn't worry. As it stands, however, that is not the case, and it is essential that Ælfred be easy to use in existing browsers as well as future ones. That is the same reason that I didn't use any JDK 1.1 features, despite the fact that I _like_ JDK 1.1. I am willing to be convinced that an extra couple of class files won't make a difference to Java applet writers (with no special interest in XML), but I will need to hear that from them. All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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