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I agree with Tim Bray. I'll have to walk away from SAX if it doesn't support namespaces in the near future. I'm concerned that SAX will lose its relevance (vendors will cease to support it) if it doesn't track the relevant xml standards. Bruce Duffy -----Original Message----- From: David Megginson [mailto:david@m...] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:22 PM To: XMLDev list Subject: SAX/C++ vs. SAX2 I'd like to hear what others think on this issue. There was some interest in SAX2 when I posted my alpha interfaces a few months back (most notably, but not exclusively, from David Brownell), but it was hardly a tidal wave. On the other hand, I am noticing a building pressure from implementors to get something out in C++. I can think of a few reasons that the world might desperately be waiting for SAX2: 1. To get some kind of standard Namespace support (or at least a way to tell whether a parser has Namespace support built in). 2. To query parser features in general. 3. To get at the stuff that SAX 1.0 doesn't report, like comments, CDATA boundaries, and DTD declarations. I think that there is a real need for #1, since many other specs (XSL, XML Schema, RDF, XHTML, etc.) are built on top of Namespaces. I think that #2 would make life a fair bit easier for library developers, but it's not as critical (Simon St-Laurent will be grateful, though). I have a lot of trouble with #3, though. There are a few specialized fields where this stuff isn't just syntactic fluff (repositories and editing tools spring immediately to mind), but in general, very, very, very few real-world XML applications need to know about anything but elements, attributes, and character data -- witness the recent SML discussion. I'm very interested in hearing other opinions. Having a standard streaming interface stimulated a lot of development of reusable Java XML processing components, and I'd like to see the same thing happen in C++, but I need to hear what other people think the priorities should be. 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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