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• Subject: RE: Re: What should TrAX look like? (Was: Re: Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML Processing")
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:58:21 -0000
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> Translation: Source isn't any more useful than just using
> java.lang.Object

There is one advantage. If you hand the transform() method a Date, or a
List, or a Gremlin, you will get a compile time type error. For me, that's a
good enough reason to invent a marker interface rather than using Object.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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