xml-dev - Re: SAX2: Namespace Processing and NSUtils helper class

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Mike Williams <mikew@o3.co.uk> writes:

> If Name extended String, could you retain backward compatibility,
> but still provide support for namespaces?

Great idea, but java.lang.String is final, so it cannot be extended
(that supposedly allows many optimizations in the JVM).  To help with
this problem, java.lang.Object does contain a toString() method for
printing, etc., and different classes can override that.


All the best,


David

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