xml-dev - Re: SAX2: Is XMLReader a bad name?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> How about calling it something like "XMLParser" or "XMLScanner" that
> does not have any preexisting connotations in most programmers' minds?
> I'm not perfectly happy with these suggested names, and hope somebody
> has a better idea, but I do think that "XMLReader" is a mistake.

I always get confused by it too.  In part because in a former life I
wrote a class that really _was_ an XML "Reader" ... did all that hairy
autodetection of encoding, juggled buffering, IANA registered encoding
name translations, and so on.  It talked to a parser -- but wasn't one!

I'm not sure how "XMLReader" landed, but that's probably in the old
archives.  In any case I think "XML" as a prefix is a bit loaded, many
packages use it internally.  Better:  "SAX2Parser" or somesuch.

- Dave

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