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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > How about calling it something like "XMLParser" or "XMLScanner" that > does not have any preexisting connotations in most programmers' minds? > I'm not perfectly happy with these suggested names, and hope somebody > has a better idea, but I do think that "XMLReader" is a mistake. I always get confused by it too. In part because in a former life I wrote a class that really _was_ an XML "Reader" ... did all that hairy autodetection of encoding, juggled buffering, IANA registered encoding name translations, and so on. It talked to a parser -- but wasn't one! I'm not sure how "XMLReader" landed, but that's probably in the old archives. In any case I think "XML" as a prefix is a bit loaded, many packages use it internally. Better: "SAX2Parser" or somesuch. - Dave *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ***************************************************************************
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