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   Re: [xml-dev] SAX - endDocument() confusion again

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@waclawek.net>
Cc: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>; <sax-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:42 PM

> At 3:27 PM -0500 2/27/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:
> 
> 
> >What about this then:
> >
> >- Add an error argument to endDocument, like in
> >
> >   public void endDocument(SAXParseException exception)
> >                 throws SAXException
> >
> >   which can be null.
> 
> This would be backwards incompatible. Maybe if at some point in the 
> future it's decided we need a backwards incompatible version of SAX, 
> but not feasible for the immediate future in the Java 1.5 time frame.

Yes, I was just thinking out loud.
 
> Even in the indefinite future,. I think the real way to handle this 
> is a stack of nested exceptions thrown by parse().

Would this solve the problem of propagating the error info through
a chain of filters?

Karl





 

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