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
