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Paul Prescod wrote: > > James Clark wrote: > > > > I feel pretty strongly that the right way to handle fatal XML errors in > > Java in a production-oriented interface is with an exception and that > > SAX needs to define an exception to cover fatal XML errors. The > > exception should extend IOException so that it works with the > > java.net.ContentHandler stuff. > > It seems very easy to map from a notWellFormed event to a notWellFormed > exception and essentially impossible to map from the exception back into > an event (with context etc.). Not at all. The exception can carry all the context that an event does (like URL, line number and so on). An exception can easily be mapped to an event: parser.setApp(app); try { parser.run(); } catch (XmlNotWellFormedException e) { parser.fatalError(e); } You can't generate more than one fatal error event with this approach, but that seems well out of the scope of a simple interface like SAX. Apart from the fact that it is the right thing to do (show me a Java API that uses a callback for a fatal error), there are two other reasons why throwing an exception is the right approach: - Representing information about the error as an object allows much better extensibility: implementations can extend XmlNotWellFormedException to provide richer error reporting, and this can be very conveniently exploited by applications. - A parser will read from a URL, thus it is already the case that it will generate IOExceptions, and thus applications have to be prepared to deal with this already. (I hope nobody is suggesting that the parser should try to catch IOExceptions.) By deriving XmlNotWellFormedException from IOException, an application doesn't have to right any additional code to deal with fatal errors. The fact that a parser needs to be able to throw IOExceptions makes deriving the parser interface from Runnable unworkable, because run can't throw any checked exceptions. Instead an app would need to create its own runnable that calls the parser inside a try statement, and catches and deals with any IOExceptions. James 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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