Re: Xerces and static mutability

[Joseph Kesselman]

Just a sanity-check, Neil: There are a bunch of things which you're making final as well as private. Some of them really are manifest constants and we can reasonably assert that nobody should be mucking with them in subclasses; the kidOK table is one such instance. Is that true for all of 'em, or are some becoming final for other reasons?

(Final is a useful tool, but I've seen final overused/misused in some other projects so I tend to be just a trifle paranoid about it.)

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Joe Kesselman / IBM Research