On 10/13/07, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/13/07, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, all. Whenever we talk about the TikaConfig object, we talk of > > configuring it using XML. > > > > I'd like to suggest that we provide an API as well. In general, it would be > > easier to use in many cases. > > My proposal for the Parser interface was to use the JavaBean > conventions for any static configuration. > > We can have an optional XML configuration mechanism in Tika, but you > could just as well configure the parsers with your favourite IoC > container or with explicit Java/Groovy/etc. code.
+1 > In fact, at the moment the XML parser configuration in Tika does > basically nothing more than associates the parser class name with the > set of mime types that it supports. We could (and perhaps even should) > easily drop the whole config file. +1 - robert
