xml-dev - Re: SAX: Next Round

[<david@megginson.com>]

James Williams - Sun East Coast IR Development writes:

 > How about adding the capabililty to register multiple
 > handlers of a given type with a parser instance?  The parser
 > would send the event to the handlers in the order they were
 > registered.

This is actually easy to handle with a special filter on top of any
SAX implementation (as is namespace processing, for that matter).

 > I think it would aid in the development of modular,
 > re-usable handlers if you could register more than one with
 > a parser.

I disagree with this point -- I think that the filter approach goes
much further towards general-purpose, reusable handlers; that said,
there are other benefits to broadcasting events (such as doing two
completely different things with the same input stream).


All the best,


David

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