Re: Announcement: SAX Java Implementation (pre-release)

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:31:30 -0700


At 05:33 PM 12/04/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>Here is my question: do we need SAXByteStream and SAXCharacterStream
>interfaces? If so, should SAX also come with default implementations
>for each language?

At the bottom level, a characterStream interface is a good idea. Having
constructors for these that take an asciiByteStream, an iso8859ByteStream
and (I guess) a UTF8InputStream and produce seems awfully convenient. -Tim