xml-dev - Re: SAX2: Interning names in namespaces

[james anderson <james.anderson@mecomnet.de>]

David Megginson wrote:
> 
> Stefan Haustein <stefan.haustein@trantor.de> writes:
> 
> > Ok, replace "complicated" by "unconvential". I do not like
> > the idea off putting "hidden" meanings to string1 == string2.
> > Normaly, someone unfamiliar with the concrete implemention
> > would expect that both strings are java-interned.
> 
> Agreed -- while the idea (as far as I understand it) is interesting,
> I'm not comfortable with any serious obfuscation, no matter how
> clever.  I've been coding for money long enough (13 years, believe it
> or not) to have seen many examples of this kind of thing, and I cannot
> remember a single one that did more good than harm in the long run.
> 

If clarity is the issue, then drop the strings and make the names first
class objects and the behaviour will be documentable. Include a factory
and the behaviour (for example raw-name-eq, q-name-eq, local-name-eq, or
whatever), will be extendable and at the discretion of the end application.

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