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RE: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"

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To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@microsoft.com>,"'Elliotte Harold'" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>,<Neeraj.Bajaj@Sun.COM>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:08:51 -0000
Cc: "'Chris Burdess'" <dog@bluezoo.org>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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> > 
> > Have you seen the alternatives, like the .NET transformation 
> > API with about 20 overloaded transform() methods?
> 
> So given the choice of methods that take useless interfaces 
> (since they
> have to cast to get anything useful) and APIs with lots of overloaded
> methods that support a rich set of data sources, why would 
> you think the
> former is better? 

(a) it's more extensible, and (b) it's more memorable for the user.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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- RE: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"
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