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

>  At 10:04 PM -0700 7/20/03, K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
>  
>  >I agree that these are poor interfaces, but aren't these the ones that
>  >the "full-size", j2SE JAXP specifies?
>  
>  No, that's a very common misconception, and I don't know
>  why. SAXParser/SAXParserFactory were added to JAXP 1.0 because it only
>  supported SAX 1, which did not have any equivalent of
>  XMLReader/XMLReaderFactory.

Thank you for pointing this out. Makes perfect sense now that you
mention it; I just never thought javax.xml.parsers for the makeshift
extension to SAX and DOM that it is. I guess the entire package should
be deprecated once DOM Level 3 L&S is finalized?

It is possible that the confusion has something to do with the fact
that XMLReaderFactory hides deep in the org.xml.sax.helpers package,
along with classes that are mostly useful for SAX producers.

Ari.

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