xml-dev - RE: ANN: SAX 2.0 extension proposals.

[Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>]

David Brownell wrote,
> Some chunk of code has to deal with configuration management,
> and parser selection is only one of many such issues.  I'd 
> really rather that apps have internally consistent 
> approaches, rather than expecting each subsystem to use a 
> different framework for it.
>
> So IMHO it's actually good if the SAX2 core provides only 
> minimal hooks (e.g. what I sent before), and thus forces apps 
> to deal with their own configuration management issues in a 
> consistent manner.
>
> And no, I wouldn't be in favor of SAX2 endorsing a particular
> scheme for configuration management.  It's an area where apps
> need to vary widely

This would be a good argument _if_ adoption of something along
the lines of the factory I proposed _excluded_ other forms
of configuration management. It doesn't tho', and one part of
it, the XMLReaderImplementation interface, would probably
_enable_ other configuration management mechanisms. 

Funnily enough, the bare interface part isn't a million miles
away from your own minimalist proposal: see,

http://www3.mistral.co.uk/miles/doc/org/xml/sax/XMLReaderImplementation.html

The concrete factory/broker class OTOH could easily be 
optional, and treated as a convenience implementation for those 
applications which don't have much in the way of global 
configuration management infrastructure.

> What you're talking about is more of what I'd call a 
> "broker": provide a feature list, it assembles something 
> suitable.

Part of my factory proposal is indeed a broker. The optional
part that is ...

> brokers tend to need LOTS of options to chose from before 
> they get viable, in code or economic senses.

In general yes. WRT the SAX API they don't: SAX specifies a
simple boolean combination of features. That's relatively easy 
to provide complete support for.

Cheers,


Miles

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