• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
• To: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:34:04 -0700

I'mm not expecting them to change SAXParserFactory. I'd mostly like
them to not deprecate XMLReaderFactory.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Thomas Passin <list1@t...> wrote:
> On 3/22/2017 4:07 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold 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?
>>
>
> It's been in there already since at least jdk7, so there's probably not much
> hope of changing the default behavior.  It's only one method call to set it
> up for namespaces: setNamespaceAware().  Not too bad.
>
> How about adding another constructor signature, boolean true for
> namespacing:
>
> public static SAXParserFactory newInstance(boolean isNamespaceAware)
>
> That would be backwards compatible and yet be convenient.
>
> TomP
>
>
>
>
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• References:
  • Deprecation of SAX API members in JDK 9
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: Deprecation of SAX API members in JDK 9
    • From: Thomas Passin <list1@t...>