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Re: String interning (WAS: SAX2/Java: Towards a final form)

  • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • To: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:03:15 -0500

Re: String interning (WAS: SAX2/Java: Towards a final form)
At 12:41 PM 1/13/00 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
>"Clark C. Evans" wrote:
>> 
>> There are going to be lots of server side filter
>> architectures using the SAX interface which may
>> not do this.  Indeed, I'd say that the "parser"
>> interface is mis-named.  It's really an "emitter".
>> And I'd go so far to say that in a few years,
>> 99% of the "emitters" out there won't be parsers!
>
>I sort of hope so.  XML data models shouldn't be
>forced to stop right above parsing; it's not always
>appropriate.  It should certainly be possible to
>assemble pipelines of components which may optionally
>be sourced by a parser, but don't need to be.

This is a serious concern for me - I'd be happy to see the terminology
change from 'parser' to 'emitter' - it'd make explaining the inputs and
outputs on SAX2 ParserFilters a lot easier.

Funny how much rides in a name.

Simon St.Laurent
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