On 9/13/19 12:20 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
On 13/09/2019 19:53, Joe Wang wrote:
Please review a new method addition to SAX ContentHandler that allows
a SAX parser to send back information about the declaration of the
input document.
JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230814
CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230824
This adds a method to an API that was originally developed by the SAX
project. Can you summarize the relationship to that project? Is that
project dead and the API subsumed by Java SE? Just asking as I don't
recall API additions being done here (I remember the work in
JDK-8152912 to deprecate XMLReaderFactory but I don't recall any
additional or removals).
It can be said that the SAX project, in terms of the API work, was dead
a long time ago. There hasn't been any updates/changes since SAX 2.0.2
released in 2004[1]. SAX is in public domain [2]. Sun/Oracle
incorporated SAX2 in Java SE with a GPL license. I assume we're free to
make changes. Please let me know if you think otherwise.
[1] http://sax.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://sax.sourceforge.net/copying.html
Thanks
Joe
-Alan.
