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Lars Marius Garshol writes, ironically: > Immediate reactions: it looks good, but filters seem to be missing. > > I think filters really should be in SAX2, for the following reasons: > > - the basic filter interface and concept is simple and fundamental > > - having a single basic standard for filters is important, as many > different packages will probably/hopefully use them as pluggable > components (MDSAX, SAXON, XSL processors, parsers etc) > > - it needs to be done anyway, and doing it in SAX2 saves us an extra > layer of standards Two responses: 1. Do we need a filter *interface* at all, or can a filter just be a class that happens to implement Parser, Configurable, EntityResolver, DTDHandler, DocumentHandler, and ErrorHandler? (In other words, is it enough to set the parent parser/filter in the constructor?) 2. Actually, just last night I wrote an org.xml.sax.helpers.FilterAdapter base class that filters can easily be derived from (though they wouldn't have to be); by default, it just lets all events sink down to the application, and all configuration bubble up to the parser, but subclasses can simply override methods to make changes in either direction. I was thinking of including this class in the next SAX2 pre-release, if people are interested; I can also distribute it separately in the mean time. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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