RE: [xml-dev] SAX for Binary Encodings (preserving investment) (ASN.1 and SAX)

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2003-11-08T02:23:28Z
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RE: [xml-dev] SAX for Binary Encodings (preserving investment) (ASN.1 and SAX)
 (Bob Wyman) writes:
>   Would this go down easier if rather than proposing a SAX 3,
>the proposal was to develop an extension to the SAX 2 XMLReader
>interface and then use the standard feature and property facilities to
>allow callers to define which callback should be made when
>characters() would normally be called? This could be done without
>perturbing the core SAX 2 interfaces at all.

If I could tell it to give me everything as characters, preferably as
the default, I could put up with this.

Still, it feels like putting poison near the heart of XML to me.