Jochen Wiedmann schrieb: >>> particular mode, one could supply and accept additional events. In the >>> case of white space around attributes, you could offer an extension of >>> the Attribute interface that informs about whitespace to the left and >>> to the right. >> That's great. Can I also add new getters to the Attribute interface? ;) > > Aaron, I know you since the early Amiga days quite well and have a > very high opinion of you. So believe me: Such nonsense is way beyond > your abilities. Or do I really need to point out how you can extemd an > API, exposing additional powers, without loosing upwards > compatibility, by extending interfaces or adding methods to > implementations?
My point is that you can't extend an API which is part of a standard. Either the standard already contains means to save the information I need to add or there is no way to keep it. What drives me so mad is that no one here on the list takes the five minutes to even try to understand what I'm talking about. >> Okay. Look at the last example in the tutorial >> (http://code.google.com/p/decentxml/wiki/Tutorial). >> If StAX can pass this test case, I'm willing to have a look. > > I know how difficult it can be to keep XML syntax from a lot of > experience. Typical areas of trouble are internal DTD (which we > hopefully no longer need to bother with, thanks heaven) and (as you > have pointed out) white space within opening and closing tags. But > that example is almost trivial. I think you are underestimating the > power of SAX, StAX, and friends quite a lot. Despite the example being so trivial, I haven't seen a single XML parser who can do this: - Create a document - Add a single root element - Add two attributes - Insert a newline between two attributes - Write the document to a file You can't do it. The XML standard allows it as input but there is no API to do that for the output. The space between attributes is a limbo. Same goes for comments before the root element in DOM. SAX can't do it, DOM certainly can't do it and StAX can't do it either. I challenge you to prove me wrong. Send me a piece of code which I can compile against any existing XML parser to prove me wrong (and it must be a parser. System.out or FileWriter isn't a parser; of course you can do that manually). Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://darkviews.blogspot.com/ http://www.pdark.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
