Re: [Sax-devel] XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader()

[Elliotte R. H. <el...@me...>]

At 3:59 PM +0200 4/27/04, Mikael St=E5ldal wrote:

>OK, it sounds reasonable for a parser vendor to modify XMLReaderFactory
>IF they bundle the SAX classes with the parser. But I don't think we
>should require parser vendors to bundle the SAX classes with the parser.
>And in particular, parser vendors should not bundle the SAX classes with
>the parser if modifying XMLReaderFactory is the ONLY REASON.

I think it is reasonable and indeed should be=20
expected for SAX parser vendors to bundle the SAX=20
classes. A lot of people are still using Java 1.3=20
and earlier that don't bundle SAX. It's better if=20
you don't have to go to multiple sites to=20
download all the code required to make something=20
work.

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