[saxdotnet-devel] ErrorHandler arguments

[Karl W. <ka...@wa...>]

On xml-dev there is a thread called "[xml-dev] SAXException, checked, buy why?".
The problem that came up is what to do when trying to pass recoverable
errors to the application? Alan Gutierrez thinks one is not allowed to use
error handler call-backs, but I think that maybe this is just a result
of underspecification. In any case, the objects passed to the error
call-backs are SAXParseException objects in Java, and ParseError objects
in SAX for .NET.

I am thinking we should rename the class from ParseError to SAXError,
as errors from application code (as you might have in your content handlers)
are not really parse errors, and you should still be allowed to pass
them to the error handlers, to avoid throwing an exception.

However, all members of ParseError (or SAXParseException ) are geared towards
errors that can occur when parsing an XML document (publicId, SystemId,
Line/ColumnNumber, etc.).

So, what to do?
Should we stick with the limitation that only parse errors can
be reported to the error handlers? Is that not rather limiting?

Karl