Re: [xml-dev] Deprecation of SAX API members in JDK 9

[Thomas Passin <list1@tompassin.net>]

On 3/22/2017 4:07 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> It looks like Oracle is planning to deprecate the SAX1 classes such as
> DocumentHandler in JDK 9. Seems reasonable.
>
> However they are also planning to deprecate the namespace aware
> org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory in favor of SAXParserFactory (not
> namespace aware by default). This seems to me to be backwards. Should
> we push back on this?
It's been in there already since at least jdk7, so there's probably not 
much hope of changing the default behavior.  It's only one method call 
to set it up for namespaces: setNamespaceAware().  Not too bad.

How about adding another constructor signature, boolean true for 
namespacing:

public static SAXParserFactory newInstance(boolean isNamespaceAware)

That would be backwards compatible and yet be convenient.

TomP