> On this one, I agree with David and disagree with James. I don't
> see the advantages to using an exception. I think that a SAX processor
> should use fatal() (why the longer fatalError()?) - this has the
> advantage that you can, after the first message, go on looking for
> more fatal errors. Of course, a SAX processor must not, after the first
> fatal() callback, emit any more element() or charData() callbacks.
The only problem here is that the element context could be useful for
error reporting (i.e. "Error in <name> in <address> in
<frontmatter>"). When XML documents are machine generated, this type
of an error message might be more useful than a line number.
Thanks, and all the best,
David
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David Megginson ak117@freenet.carleton.ca
Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@microstar.com
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/
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