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

[David Wang <dwang@mitre.org>]

> 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?

I'm not so strongly concerned about ContentHandler since javac give a
sufficient error message for a competent programmer to ferret out (though
it's still annoying), but XMLReader really brings the connotation that this
is a particular type of java.io.Reader that can read and parse XML and I'd
be tempted to use it as such (say, plumb it at the end of an
InputStreamReader off of a network stream or something of the sort and
expect to call something like "ReadNode()").

Just my two cents from a student's perspective.


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