Re: YAXPAPI (Yet Another XML Parser API)- an XDEV proposal
Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sat, 13 Dec 1997 18:22:52 -0800
At 09:01 PM 13/12/97 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>I have worried about this myself. My design goal with =C6lfred has been
>to limit myself to two class files: one for the parser itself, and one
>for the interface for the callbacks -- hence the separate event for
>attributes. This decision has forced some pretty severely hacked-up
>internal code accompanied by very careful documentation.
Hmm, isn't this what JAR and so on are for? Seems like an awfully=20
severe design constraint. I certainly agree with "small" as a design
goal, but it seems like limiting class file count carries a pretty
high price. - Tim