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  • From: "Ean R . Schuessler" <ean@n...>
  • To: xml-dev@x...
  • Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:12:35 -0500

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 04:11:13PM -0400, David Megginson wrote:
> It's hard to think of a good reason for that -- do users really want
> libraries poking around inside their implementations?

As I said, it was a dumb example. In spirit I agree with your notion
that queries should only flow up the chain. If nothing else, it makes it
a lot harder to get circular queries going. So, I won't argue with you
anymore on that one.

> > Another application that would be useful would be querying the
> > "parent" of the ContentHandler for its last modification time. 
> 
> The parent in which direction?  Do you mean the parent in the filter
> chain, or the superclass?  If you mean the parent in the filter chain,
> that *is* allowed in SAX2.

Yes, I mean the parent in the filter chain. I may be dense, but I can't
really see how a ContentHandler can query its parent in the filter chain.
How would that be done?

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