On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Justin Deoliveira
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Recently myself and a colleague of mine (Rob Marianski) worked on some
>> improved parsing for KML. Including support for parsing KML 2.2 along with
>> some of its advanced "custom data" features, ie "SchemaData" and
>> "ExtendedData".
>>
>> The work is mostly constrained to the kml bindings which afaik don't see
>> much use but there were a few core changes required, including adding a new
>> PullParser to the xsd-core module. Written against the jaxp XMLStreamReader
>> interface it should be a good replacement for STreamingParser. While this
>> was not required for the KML work it seemed worth it to come up with a
>> better implementation for stream parsing.
>>
>> Anyways, the changes have been pushed to master but i was hoping to
>> backport to 8.x. So i opened a pull request for review:
>>
>> https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/67
>>
>
> Hmm... clean, well tested, mostly additions to the API, I agree the KML
> does not seem to be used
> much anyways and this could kick its usage up.
> +1 on the backport provided PullParser API is reasonably meant to be
> stable over time (not saying
> not changing ever, but not changing next week)
>
> Not much planned for it. The way it is implemented is a pretty standard
way to adapt a pull parser and generate sax events.
> Wondering about StreamingParser... should it be deprecated?
> More in general, what's the relationship between it and PullParser?
> One replaces the other, they have different features and thus different
> intended
> use cases?
>
Yeah, we should probably deprecate it as the two more or less provide the
same api. The streaming parser however does offer a jxpath option that the
pull parser does not.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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