Re: Announcement: SAX Java Implementation (pre-release)
Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:23:08 -0400
Tyler Baker wrote:
>
> > Also, the distinction between the two new parse methods looks very
> > Java-specific to me.
>
> The idea of character streams is for supporting streams which already handle the
> byte to UNICODE character translation for you. I am not familiar with Python,
> but I assume there must be some sort of 16 bit wide character set that is Unicode
> compliant. This I feel is all that David is trying to add to SAX, not something
> Java specific.
True, but "InputStream" and "Reader" are neither well-knowns ADT nor
well-defined interfaces outside of the Java world. Suppose a SAX client
and server are talking over a CORBA connection. What are the
requirements on the object passed to the parseInputStream( ) and
parseReader() methods (non-overloaded variants of the parse method).
Where are these requirements defined?
Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
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