xml-dev - Re: Request for Discussion: SAX 1.0 in C++

[roddey@us.ibm.com]

>> > 2) We would prefer that all data come out of the SAX interfaces as
>> > raw wchar_t strings. This is the most flexible mechanism and does
>> > not lock people into using any particular implementation of a string
>> > object. It also has the highest potential performance for those
>> > folks who never need to put it into anything more formal than a raw
>> > array.
>>
>> std::basic_string<> _is_ a modern service of C++, and a pretty good
>> one from an API point of view.
>>
>> Personally I say: use std::basic_string<> and death to all other
>> string representations in C++.
>
>Agreed. I don't see why you need to obviate the C++ standard library
>string. If it's that bad, upgrade your compiler environment (e.g.
>Windows) or install an entirely new one (e.g. STLport and the like).
>

Well, if you want to take on the job of convincing our very large and
important customers that they have to do this, then I'll go along with your
proposal. Otherwise, I can't. And I don't think that they will. They have
some crufty old compilers and we have to support them, unfortunately. Many
of them do not have any namespace support at all.

And, as I said before, for those of us who are building an XML parser on
top of a comprehensive framework, this is a non-starter because the whole
point of those frameworks are to replace the standard C++ library, which is
pretty poor as a comprehensive development framework.

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Dean Roddey
Software Weenie
IBM Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley
roddey@us.ibm.com



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