• From: Miles Sabin <msabin@c...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:41:03 -0000

David Megginson wrote,
> One of the keys to SAX1's success was making life easy for
> implementors, even when it meant leaving out features that 
> some users would have liked.

Hang on a minute ...

I thought the 'Simple' in 'Simple API for XML' was supposed to
imply that the API was simple relatively inexperienced
programmers to _use_. It doesn't necessarily follow that it
must be utterly trivial to implement.

Let's face it, anyone with enough facility in Java to be able 
to build a conformant XML parser (or even a partially
conformant minimalist parser) shouldn't have a particularly
tough time implementing a simple two method factory interface.

Cheers,


Miles

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+44 (0)20 8817 4030               London, W6 0LJ, England
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