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Paul Prescod writes: > > The advantage is that the same XmlApplication object can work with > > more than one XmlProcessor at the same time (though it is not required > > to be able to do so). > > If you use the name "Application" then it makes sense to require a > single application to support multiple processors. Jade is an example of > an application that supports multiple processors. If we use the word > ***Consumer, then it makes sense that there should be a single consumer > per Producer. I'm using the XML terminology, where "processor" actually means "parser" (ick). > > > This could be done by having the app ask the processor for the location > > > of the last event in some non-standardized way, but that's kind of > > > kludgy. On the other hand, maybe this is just too fancy for a > > > "simple" API. > > > > I think that it probably is too fancy. > > Maybe, but it also seems very important. A processor that can't tell you > where your errors are is very frustrating. Perhaps there should > immediately be a "level 2" that supports this. These are two separate things. Adding a "col" argument to the error() callback is not so tricky, but providing the exactly location of every start and end tag or data chunk is too complicated. 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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