RE: User defined SAX ContentHandler

From: Ramkumar Menon <ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:  User defined SAX ContentHandler
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:51:00 +0530

Hi All,

W3C defines specific methods witihn a SA ContentHandler like
startElement(), endElement() etc... that would be called back when
elements are encountered within the XML Document.
User overrides these methods to define the logic within each of these
callback methods.

As an alternative, what if the User defines explicit methods like

public void startEmployee() [simplified here- ignoting namespace mappings]
public void endEmployee()
public void onEmptyAdddress()
public void onAttr_Employee_Name() [this is just illustrative of the
attributes scenario.]

Advantage
-----------------

Cleaner separation of logic.
<<add here>>

Disadvantages
---------------------

No Clear contract.
<<add here>>

This is only an ilustrative subset of the functionalty.
What do you folks think of this ? Is this a better alternative ?

rgds,
Menon