Re: More SAX Parsers and Applications?

Tyler Baker (tyler@infinet.com)
Tue, 08 Sep 1998 20:50:22 -0400


Don Park wrote:

> David,
>
> It might be a Good Thing (tm by Tyler) to setup a SAX Service Directory

Hehe... I suppose all you would really need here is to have a web server that
indexes the JAR files (or other binary container format for other languages) of
every parser.

> Server. This way, any SAX client can find the latest and the greatest SAX
> parser over the Net.
>

Another idea that has come to mind is moving the SAX directory structure from:

org.xml.sax

to:

org.xml.sax.parser

Things like standard output APIs may have some claim to being put in a standard
namespace like org.xml.sax For the sake of flexibility, perhaps moving SAX to a
sub-package may be best in the long run. SAX stands for Simple API for XML.
Right now this seems to only apply for parsers, but I think the next step may be
for formatters to be standardized as well.

Tyler