RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong with XML APIs (and How to Fix Them)

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RE: [xml-dev] re: XML SIG 17 September: Elliotte Rusty Harold on What's Wrong with XML APIs (and How to Fix Them)
At 10:39 AM -0600 9/12/02, Aaron Skonnard wrote:


>Sure you can, by consuming ContentHandler instead of implementing it. In
>fact, this use of SAX is MUCH more intuitive than for reading documents.
>

You can do a lot of things by consuming ContentHandler, but none of 
that is a  part of SAX. SAX is a read-only API on top of which many 
applications can be built. Don't confuse the application you built 
with SAX itself.
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