RE: [xml-dev] What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing")

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

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> From: Paul R Brown [mailto:prb@fivesight.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: 'XML Developers List'
> Cc: 'Elliotte Harold'; Michael Kay
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: 
> [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing")
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> 
> I also go so far as to say that the discussion is a bit misdirected: 
> the apparently poor encapsulation of Source is more of a 
> symptom of the fact that TrAX transformers (e.g., XSLT 
> processors but potentially STX or XQuery or...?) need to be 
> able to implement their underlying model however they so 
> choose.  Source is little more than a marker interface, and 
> the thing that makes sense (at least to me) is to have 
> off-the-beaten-path Source implementations (e.g., for a pull 
> parser) exhibit enough polymorphism (implement SAXSource, 
> DOMSource, etc.) to make them useful and reasonably portable 
> for consumption by different Transformer implementations.

Marker interface is a synonym for design flaw. 

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