Re: SAX: two alternatives for namespaces

Peter Murray-Rust (peter@ursus.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:29:41

At 08:33 29/07/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>
> package org.xml.sax;
>
> public interface Parser {
> ...
> public boolean hasFeature (String featureName);
> public boolean requestFeature (String featureName, boolean status);
> }
>
>It is important to note that with such an approach, there would have
>to be a registry of feature names in addition to the SAX interface.
>
>Here's how you could use this interface:
>
> if (!parser.requestFeature("org.xml.sax.validation", true) ||
> !parser.requestFeature("org.xml.sax.namespaces", false)) {
> throw new MyException("Cannot activate validation without namespaces.");
> }

I really like this idea.

I had made a feeble effort along this sort of track by producing a
SAXOptions class along the lines of GridBagConstraints in java.awt (i.e.
values are poked in to influence GridBagLayout). This is obviously more
sophisticated and having now seen it , the use of resources is an obvious
way to go. My use was to control the whitespace behaviour of SAX...

P.

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