• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 12:29:24 -0400

David Brownell wrote:

> > Note that SAX lets you pass an InputStream and a media type together;
> > this is useful if you know the type and don't have an URI.  This may
> > be more efficient than instantiating your own InputStreamReader,
> > depending on the parser.
> 
> You passed the quiz ... "what oft-overlooked SAX feature did Dave
> omit, to have the Right Thing sound so simple?"  :-)
> 
> Though you should have said "character encoding", not "media type".

Oops, yes.

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