RE: [xml-dev] Re: SAX is not a read-only API (wa RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17...)

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Aaron Skonnard <>
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2002-09-12T20:00:10Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Re: SAX is not a read-only API (wa RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17...)
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

...
> >ch.startDocument();
> >// document content goes here...
> >Ch.endDocument();
> 
> This is interesting, but you still need a class that implements the
> ContentHandler that is not part of SAX. You cannot write an XML
> document without adding your own non-standard, XML classes.

Sure, just like you need a class that implements XMLReader on the
reading side. I think it's clear that we have different definitions for
"API". I consider the SAX interface definitions the "API", where you
seem to define it as the implementation (and entire packaging) of those
interfaces.

-aaron

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