Elliotte Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/08/2005 08:41:12 AM: > Michael Glavassevich wrote: > > > Unless you want to enable XInclude processing, plug-in a schema validator > > or reliably reset the parser to the configuration it had when it was > > created. If you want to do these things, SAX2 alone isn't sufficient. > > That can all be done with XMLReader and XMLReaderFactory. That's what > feature and properties are for.
That *could* all be done with XMLReader and XMLReaderFactory if standard features and properties were defined, but they're not. Perhaps JAXP 1.3 should have used features and properties but it didn't so the only implementation neutral way of enabling these things is to use SAXParser and SAXParserFactory. > SAXParser/SAXParserFactory is flawed at > its core. and backwards compatibility requirements mean that it cannot > be fixed. A stake should be driven through its heart, its head chopped > off, garlic stuffed in its mouth, and the whole rotting corpse burned. > The design flaws in these two classes waste thousands of hours of > programmer time around the world every year. I have lost count of how > many times I've had to fix bugs in people's code because they used > SAXParser and SAXParserFactory in the obvious, natural, and thoroughly > wrong way; and this includes code shipped by Apache written by > programmers who you really would have thought would have known where the > pitfalls lay. Out of curiosity, aside from the obviously bad default for namespace awareness what other pitfalls are there? > SAXParser and SAXParserFactory should be deprecated and no further > development should be done on them. They haven't been necessary for half > a decade, and their continued existence is a blot on XML and Java. > > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] > XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
