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RE: org.xml.sax.ContentHandler conflicts withjava.net.ContentHandler

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:40:08 -0500

The general attitude seems to be that programmers--including possibly 
inexperienced student programmers, which we all were at one 
point--should simply suffer a little and they'll learn how to fix the 
problem, doubtless after some gnashing of teeth and a few extra posts 
to the mailing lists.

But I still haven't heard any reasons other than inertia for keeping 
the name "ContentHandler". Clearly, it's not essential. The 
equivalent SAX1 interface was called DocumentHandler. We don't want 
to reuse that name, but certainly there are other choices: 
ContentCallbacks, ParserCallback, XMLHandler, etc.

We can save programmers time and pain by making the change now. 
Shouldn't we do that?

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