Todd --
For the UseXMLFilters example, of course, either way will work just
fine. The problem arises when one of the filters wants to override the
parse method. Perhaps, it only wants to letter certain URLs through or
check some special security or something. In your second scenario, the
parse
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Question: In the sample program UseXMLFilters.java (located in
xml-xalan/java/samples/UseXMLFilters) it appears that 3 XMLFilters
(filter1, filter2, and filter3 in diagram) are being chained together
into a pipeline, a Serializer is plugged into filter3 as a
ContentHandler, and an XMLReader
