Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > At 9:07 PM -0800 3/4/04, Clay Leeds wrote: > >- if XMLReaderFactory works under JDK 1.3 and/or 1.2, what kinds of > >benefits might fop-0.20.5 see from a switch to XMLReaderFactory? > > Cleaner simpler code that's less likely to get hosed by different > implementations interpreting a spec in very different ways. Plus > you'll be ready for the eventual deprecation of SAXParserFactory in > JAXP 1.4. And you'll be able to work with SAX parsers that don't > support JAXP. Not sure how much of an issue that is any more in > practice, but it was a very real issue in the recent past.
It took me a little while, but I now remember again why I did not want to use the XMLReaderFactory. I do not understand how I can guarantee that I get an XMLReader that is capable of validation. In SAXParserFactory I can configure the factory to look for a validating and namespace-aware parser. In XMLReaderFactory, it may produce an XMLReader which throws an exception when I want to set the validating feature on it. Regards, Simon Pepping -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
