Peter B. West wrote:
So I exaggerated. But how many better applications can you find me for StAX than processing XSL-FO? If StAX has no application here, it has no application. Is that what you're saying?
You're asking the question backwards. We should not be asking, "Is XSL-FO the best possible use case for StAX?" We should be asking, "Is StAX the best possible API for XSL-FO?"
One certainly good do write FOP on top StAX, but you can also do it with SAX; and since it's already working with SAX I see no particular reason to throw away the working SAX code and replace it with StAX. If we were starting from scratch, and if the developers were more familiar with StAX than SAX, and if StAX parsers were as mature, proven, and ubiquitous as SAX parsers, then writing FOP on top of StAX might be reasonable. However none of that's the case.
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