Validating : error code vs. Exception ?

David Megginson (david@megginson.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:01:04 -0400


Patrice Bonhomme writes:

> I am (always !) developing an XML Validating Parser in Java. I'm developing
> the Error management during the process of validation. I am a little unsure of
> the use of either returning an error code or throwing an Exception ?

SAX leave the choice up the the application (user): the parser simply
makes a callback to an error handler, and the error handler throws an
exception if it wants to.

All the best,

David

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