• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: 24 Feb 2000 20:42:06 -0500

Miles Sabin <msabin@c...> writes:

> 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.

Basically, we tried to make SAX1 easy to implement and we tried to
make it easy to use, but where there was a conflict, we almost always
favoured the implementors over the users.  I know that sounds
completely wrong, but it seems to work.  For a theoretical
justification of this approach, see one of my most-quoted references

  http://www.naggum.no/worse-is-better.html

(Search forward for section 2.1 "The Rise of Worse is Better".)


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@m...
           http://www.megginson.com/

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