xml-dev - RE: Sun's XML Classes

[Rob Williams <rob@robco-inc.com>]

What do you mean by helper methods? You mean taking Jack's suggestion and
just writing a little method that is going to wrap the newline and post the
field value all in one fell swoop? That does look good; I mainly wanted to
see what seasoned vets of this stuff were doing before I started rewriting.

Thanks,

R

-----Original Message-----
From: David Brownell [mailto:db@Eng.Sun.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 1:00 PM
To: Rob Williams
Cc: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Sun's XML Classes


Rob Williams wrote:
> 
> I downloaded the Early Access of the Sun classes and they work ok, so far
> for what I've wanted to do with them. My question is, has anyone else
found
> that you end up writing a lot of ugly code to get simple things done?

That's basically what you get from using the W3C APIs directly.  Some of
what you're doing is more or less pretty-printing ... which the next
version will do for you automatically.

Also, as noted, helper methods are not only Your Good Friends but are
generally good style anyway!

- Dave

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