Re: Sorting out org.xml.sax.AttributeList

Michael Kay (M.H.Kay@eng.icl.co.uk)
Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:09:28 -0000

> package org.xml.sax;
>
> public interface NameList {
> public abstract int getLength ();
> public abstract int getIndex (String name);
> public abstract String getName (int index);
> }
>
> public interface AttributeList extends NameList {
> public abstract String getType (int index);
> public abstract String getValue (int index);
> }

1. Please could we retain the convenient
public String getValue (String name);

2. I thought the consensus was that getType should return an integer,
possibly a bit-significant set of flags?
>
>For notations...
>Unparsed entities...

At present this all leaves me rather cold because no-one has yet convinced
me of the value of using these XML facilities versus simple
application-level conventions like <IMAGE FILE="abc.jpeg"/>. I'm open to
persuasion; but if we need to provide these things, we must make sure they
do not add overhead for users who don't think they need to use them.

Mike Kay