[OT] Pondering over ContentHandler's startElement

[Dave Brosius <db...@qis.net>]

This question probably has been asked many times before, and i realize it's beyond xalan's devs to be the authority on everything sax, but indulge me if you wouldn't mind.


Was there any consideration to have the startElement signature return a boolean which informed the parser as to whether or not the client wanted to be notified of sub tree events? Seems like it would be a handy thing.

Re: [OT] Pondering over ContentHandler's startElement

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

"Did SAX consider..." is definitely a SAX question, not a Xalan question
(or even a Xerces question, which would be closer to being on topic since
you're asking about parser behavior).

If you're talking only about Xalan's internal "extended SAX-like" APIs... I
don't _think_ that particular change would buy us much (if anything) in the
current code, but I could be wrong.

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