• From: Tyler Baker <tyler@i...>
• To: james anderson <james.anderson@m...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:19:52 -0500

james anderson wrote:

> Perhaps this is yet another argument for a less primitive intern-basis
> than that of String.intern().
> a. One could well intern QNames rather than Strings, with the
> concomitant ability to specify the strength of the reference. This
> entails the "bothersome" static bindings, but i'm actually fond of them.
> b. One could well structure the intern-map to reflect the namespace
> partitions and flush qname-packages on an lru basis.
>
> In all, the server life-span shouldn't stop one from interning.

For applications that use XML Namespaces, this would make dealing with Namespaces much
more efficient as well as a lot more straightforward if what you are saying is to create a
specialized QName object (or interface).

Tyler


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