• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:17:46 -0700

As best I can tell, not being a mercurial expert, this change was
checked in 6 days ago by "lana":

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jaxp/file/d02b6fbcab06/src/java.xml/share/classes/org/xml/sax/helpers/XMLReaderFactory.java

I haven't yet located the JPE that requested this change.



On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold
<elharo@i...> wrote:
> It looks like Oracle is planning to deprecate the SAX1 classes such as
> DocumentHandler in JDK 9. Seems reasonable.
>
> However they are also planning to deprecate the namespace aware
> org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory in favor of SAXParserFactory (not
> namespace aware by default). This seems to me to be backwards. Should
> we push back on this?
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
> elharo@i...



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• References:
  • Deprecation of SAX API members in JDK 9
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>