RE: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing"

> > 
> > Have you seen the alternatives, like the .NET transformation 
> > API with about 20 overloaded transform() methods?
> 
> So given the choice of methods that take useless interfaces 
> (since they
> have to cast to get anything useful) and APIs with lots of overloaded
> methods that support a rich set of data sources, why would 
> you think the
> former is better? 

(a) it's more extensible, and (b) it's more memorable for the user.

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