• To: "'Peter Hunsberger'" <peter.hunsberger@g...>
• Subject: RE: Principles of XML design
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 23:54:36 +0100
• Cc: "'Chris Burdess'" <dog@b...>,"'XML List Developers'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> > > Just out of interest: when are "users" going to be 
> switching between
> > > parsers for a given application?
> > 
> > Anyone moving their application from JDK 1.4 to JDK 1.5 is 
> switching between
> > parsers, unless they go out of their way not to.
> 
> Given the parser that ships with 1.4 I'd hope anyone who really cares
> has gone out of their way to ensure that doesn't happen....

But 98% of users don't care and don't need to - that's the whole point.
There are vast numbers of people who don't know what XML parser they are
using, and that's exactly the way it should be.

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

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