Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@[...].edu>  writes:

>  *   Sun is using the confusing, underspecified SAXParser and
>  SAXParserFactory instead of the much cleaner, better specified
>  XMLReader and XMLReaderFactory.
>  
>  * Sun has removed the ContentHandler interface and replaced it with
>  the DefaultHandler adapter class.

I agree that these are poor interfaces, but aren't these the ones that
the "full-size", j2SE JAXP specifies?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/package-frame.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParser.html

I think these APIs were a mistake to start with, and I never used
them directly - I always getXMLReader() and go from there.

This said, do you think it's a good idea to introduce
incompatibilities between Java platforms at the cost of better
interfaces in some of them? And then, is ME the right place to start?

Ari.

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