Re: Announcement: SAX Java Implementation (pre-release)

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 17:33:13 -0400


Paul Prescod writes:

> 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?

James has made this same point somewhat differently.

Here is my question: do we need SAXByteStream and SAXCharacterStream
interfaces? If so, should SAX also come with default implementations
for each language?

All the best,

David

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