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RE: Re: [xml-dev] What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: [xml-dev] Articl

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To: "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@microsoft.com>,"'Prakash Yamuna'" <techpy@yahoo.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: Re: [xml-dev] What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing")
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:58:21 -0000
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> Translation: Source isn't any more useful than just using
> java.lang.Object

There is one advantage. If you hand the transform() method a Date, or a
List, or a Gremlin, you will get a compile time type error. For me, that's a
good enough reason to invent a marker interface rather than using Object.

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

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- RE: Re: [xml-dev] What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing")
  - From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>

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