[xmlenc-devel] New class responsible for output (Was: XMLStream)

[Ernst de H. <zn...@Fr...>]

> I didn't understand why you are planning this:
> > I would like to introduce a new class that is responsible only for the
> > different types of output (raw, PCDATA with char entity replacements,
> > attribute values, etc).
>
> Could you elaborate on this thought some time?

Currently the main class (XMLStream, previously XMLEncoder) inheritance 
chain is based on the low-level, encoding-specific, output characteristics. 
There are 2 subclasses, one for Unicode encodings and one for ASCII-based 
encodings.

If the main class should be extensible in terms of functionality or 
behaviour, then a new class should be introduced to encapsulate the 
low-level output characteristics. Then the main class will delegate that to 
this new class.

Ernst

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