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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Perhaps. The current situation is untenable though. Some hard choices > need to be made, sooner or later. As it stands, SAX is severely > underspecified, parsers do exhibit varying behavior, and programs are > not interoperable between parsers (and this is hardly the only area > where that is true). The failure to produce a test suite in conjunction > with the specification was a major error, but one I hope to begin > rectifying soon. It would also be helpful if you could assemble a list of all the points where you think that SAX is underspecified and put them in a semi-permanent Web location. That would be helpful not only for any future SAX/Java maintainers, but for people working on SAX-like interfaces for other languages as well. All the best, David
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