There will be no additional changes other than bug fixes; however,
since bugs have required several minor changes already, and since the
final, official, righteous SAX 1.0 version might still be a week or
more away, in the interest of openness I have uploaded SAX 1.0gamma (I
don't like "beta2") to the following (new) URL:
(The final SAX 1.0 will be mirrored at
http://www.microstar.com/XML/SAX/ as well).
The latest JavaDoc is also available online. SAX is changing very
little now, and it is probably safe to start basing implementations on
it, as long as you're ready for a little tweaking. Here are the (very
minor) changes since 1.0beta:
Interface Changes
-----------------
- bug fix: changed parameter to Parser.setLocale() to java.util.Locale
(a single string is insufficient)
- bug fix: added default constructor to InputSource, to simplify
subclassing
- bug fix: removed "extends IOException" from InputSource (it was
retained accidentally from an earlier revision)
- bug fix: in the ParserFactory helper class, used
"org.xml.sax.parser" instead of "sax.parser" for the system property
name
Documentation Changes
---------------------
- doc fix: clarify that attributes in AttributeList are zero-indexed
- doc fix: clarify that Parser objects are non-re-entrant but reusable
- doc fix: clarify that the parser should never modify the InputSource
provided by the application
- doc fix: clarify that the parser should not deliver the endDocument
event until EOF or a non-recoverable error
- moved sample drivers to com.megginson.sax package
All the best,
David
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David Megginson ak117@freenet.carleton.ca
Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@microstar.com
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/