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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:25:50 -0700
At 11:20 AM 5/19/99 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>2. Add the methods to org.xml.sax.Parser, and require applications to
> catch NoSuchMethodException when using the new methods, in case
> they're concerned about what version they're dealing with.
>
> PRO: - doesn't limit options for subclassing in the future
> CON: - very difficult to write adapters for existing SAX 1.0
> drivers (slower acceptance and implementation of SAX2)
> - can cause unexpected behaviour at deployment time, unless
> the application designer knows to catch
> NoSuchMethodException
Still, this seems the right thing to do. SAX has been successful, but
of all its eventual users, 95% haven't started or even heard of it
yet. Face the legacy-code issue and deal with it and just make SAX
as good as possible for the long haul. -Tim
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