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At 9:27 AM -0500 2/22/04, David Megginson wrote: >* Topic 2004-0002: XML 1.1 support > >- add a read-only feature to check for XML 1.1 support (John Cowan, > 2004-02-18) > I suggest this should be read-write for parsers that support XML 1.1. I have a need to sometimes require documents to be 1.0, and right now setting that up with a parser that supports 1.0 is a royal PITA. >- add a read-only property (double) to return the version number of > the document being parsed (John Cowan, 2004-02-18) I suggest that this property be a String rather than double. Several reasons: 1. Long term, it may not always be parseable as a double (1.1.1 anyone?) 2. Double equality comparisons are very tricky. String comparisons are much simpler. 3. It's not hard to convert a String to a double if you need that for some reason. 4. It's not really possible to make the value of the property a primitive double in Java. It would have to be a Double. Better to just make it a String, which is a little easier to deal with in code. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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