Re: [Saxdotnet-devel] Merging the IXmlReaderControl with IXmlReader

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

Jeff Rafter wrote:

> Karl has proposed merging the IXmlReaderControl functionality into the 
> IXmlReader. This would add a "Suspend" and "Resume" function to the core 
> XmlReader. For implementations that do not support this behavior 
> (AElfred) calling these methods would generate a NotSupportedException.
> 

Is it possible these could be no-ops instead of throwing exceptions? I 
find all this talk of methods that sometimes work and sometimes don't to 
be very confusing.

For a class like XmlReader that is accessed directly by the programmer, 
rather than being passed in as an argument or used through a callback, 
wouldn't it be preferable to have subclasses with extra functionality? 
Why do we need to stuff every method into one interface?

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