[Saxdotnet-devel] "Unifying" the core and extension interfaces

[Jeff R. <li...@je...>]

"Unifying" the extensions and core interfaces:
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Currently, there are several interfaces marked as extension interfaces. 
The primary examples are ILexicalHandler and IDeclHandler. These 
interfaces provide access to data that is not required to be reported by 
the XML Specification. Hence all of the information is considered 
"extension" and not "core". That's fine. We don't want to change that.

What we do what to change is the clumsy mechanism for connecting 
extension interfaces to an IXmlReader. Currently this is done through 
the setproperty/getproperty mechanism. We propose to add new interface 
level property for LexicalHandler and DeclHandler (that will behave in 
the same way ContentHandler, ErrorHandler, etc, work).

The only difference will be when a parser/implementation does not 
support the reporting of "extension" data. In such a case, when the 
property is set the parser can throw a SaxNotSupportedException (or 
NotSupportedException depending on the outcome of the proposal to change 
some of the exception design in the API).

For those of us that use these interfaces on a regular basis it should 
simplify a lot of code. Especially when you know about 
parser/implementation level support a priori.

Thanks,
Jeff Rafter