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Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > * uche ogbuji > | > | Furthermore, I've been thinking of proposing that the SAX2 > | interfaces be specified in IDL rather than Java (or at least > | publishing an IDL translatiuon when the interfaces are stabilized), > | and your proposal wouldn't wash in IDL. > > Many things in SAX won't wash in IDL, such as the use of the > Java-specific InputStream, Reader and Locale objects. > > Also, IDL has a problem in that it's sort of a least common > denominator, and thus leaves out many useful language-specific things. > So you'd probably want to do a manual translation anyway. > > If there ever is a published SAX spec I think it should use IDL to be > politically correct and point out potential language-mapping problems. > However, the actual utility of IDL I think is low in this particular > case. When we defined IDL at the OMG, we acknowledged that there was scope for language-specific binding attributes for a bunch of specific things. That didn't argue against using IDL for the majority of methods, where such language-specific issues don't crop up. There's no crime in writing, as the OMG did, specs that are IDL but where particular data types are defined as being language-specific, and not subject to the general mapping rules. In CORBA 1.0 and 2.0 we called that "Pseudo-IDL". - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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