Re: [xml-dev] SAX - endDocument() confusion again

From
Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
To
Karl Waclawek <>
Date
2004-02-27T20:42:05Z
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<p06010202bc655b9ccdba@[192.168.254.4]>
Thread
Re: [xml-dev] SAX - endDocument() confusion again
At 3:27 PM -0500 2/27/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:


>What about this then:
>
>- Add an error argument to endDocument, like in
>
>   public void endDocument(SAXParseException exception)
>                 throws SAXException
>
>   which can be null.

This would be backwards incompatible. Maybe if at some point in the 
future it's decided we need a backwards incompatible version of SAX, 
but not feasible for the immediate future in the Java 1.5 time frame.

Even in the indefinite future,. I think the real way to handle this 
is a stack of nested exceptions thrown by parse().

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA