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Re: SAX Proposal: new AttributesBuilder interface

• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: James Strachan <james@m...>
• Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 14:54:59 -0500

James Strachan wrote:

> The implementation of XMLReader will come with a standard implementation of
> AttributesBuilder. But this new interface and method allows users of the
> XMLReader to override how to build an Attributes instance to use a more
> applicable data structure.

The trouble with this scheme is that it blocks a very common implementation
technique.  Since an Attribute object is valid only during a startElement
callback, there is no reason for a parser to ever instantiate more than
one such object, and indeed it is common for the SAXParser object to be
the object in question.

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