Hi Carsten (and other Cocooners),
I have just been playing around with the XML stuff. I notice that a bunch
of classes have protected variables. As these can make system evolution
difficult to do while remaining backwards compatible I would like to remove
these.
I made the variable in XercesParser private as I figured that there was no
real way you could subclass XercesParser and reuse the variable. However I
held off doing the same for any of the other classes as they could
conceivably be used by subclasses. Thus I am not sure if changing them
would break any code. I suspect not but I figured I would ask you first.
Would there be any probalem with making the variables private and
potentially of making classes final?
Cheers,
Peter Donald
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everyone gets busy on the proof."
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