xml-dev - Re: org.xml.sax.ContentHandler conflicts with java.net.ContentHan dler

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk> writes:

> That's true, but to be honest I don't care. Importing in '*' form
> isn't good practice because it hides dependency structure. That's
> not important in small projects, but once you get up to hundreds 
> of packages and thousands of classes it can be a very big deal: 
> try refactoring a significant chunk of code when you can't tell 
> at a glance what depends on what.

Thanks for the support.  I've always considered import package.* to be 
the sign of either

a) a novice (forgivable); or
b) expremely sloppy coding.

Mind you, there are times that sloppy coding is OK (such as whipping
up a quick demo).

I understand the concerns with both XMLReader and ContentHandler, but
I'm very reluctant to make changes this late in the SAX2 process, and
we've already spent a lot of time discussing the XMLReader name.  Do
people feel very strongly about renaming either of these?


All the best,


David

p.s. The names should work fine in C++.

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
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