> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Thorsten Scherler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Verzonden: vrijdag 4 augustus 2006 13:09
> Aan: Forrest Developers List
> Onderwerp: Do not raise exception when you can prevent it (was Re:
> 
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> IMO it is way cleaner to test whether the source.exist() before trying
> to read form it. This way a FileNotFoundException is prevented.

Please note that some source implementations don't return a correct
answer. For example, the SitemapSource (for cocoon://) always returns
true when asking for exists(), see:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/core/cocoon-core/src/main/j
ava/org/apache/cocoon/components/source/impl/SitemapSource.java

I don't know about other source implementations, but this one caused me
some trouble...

Bart.