Glen, Thanks for your lengthy reply. It makes more sense now. Although I keep the feeling that this change brings the FO tree building and area tree building modules closer together than I would prefer.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:20:16PM -0700, Glen Mazza wrote: > > AreaTreeHandler > > throws > > SAXExceptions. This is a parser based exception > > type. > > > > Indeed--needs them just as much as MIFHandler and > RTFHandler do. This parser based exception penetrates the app rather deeply. It would be better if here all traces of the particular FO file input method would have vanished. > Also, in merging the two I was able to remove a lot of > code that dealt with communication between the > two--moving out this administrative code dropped the > combined size by about a third (IIRC 500&265LOC > before, 465LOC after.) It does help in comprehension. Communication may be a means of separating parts of an app from each other. And often it is worth the extra lines of code. Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
