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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev-digest@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:55:13 -0000
James Layer wrote,
> While I share Miles' sentiments regarding legacy baggage, I
> believe David's deprecation approach would promote a more
> rapid (and smoother) adoption of the new interface (at least
> at the company where I work).
>
> We have abstracted the 'get a parser' process so our app
> developers request a parser based (primarily) on
> functionality rather than demanding a specific
> implementation;
I don't think dropping 'extends Parser' should impact on this
in any really significant way. Intially I would expect almost
all parsers to implement both XMLReader _and_ Parser for SAX1
compatibility, so you'd have a fair breathing space during
which casting from the former to the latter would be safe.
Actually, one of my worries is that having XMLReader extend
a deprecated interface will cause javac/jikes/javadoc to spit
out warnings or errors ... not a big deal, perhaps, but a bit
of a pain (I'm one of those people who habitually set the
'treat warnings as errors' flag on all my tools ;-).
Cheers,
Miles
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