Re: Locator2 is wrong

> The Locator2 interface has two methods:
> 
> getXMLVersion()
> getEncoding()
> 
> Neither of these provides location information or has any relation to 
> the functionality of the superinterface Locator. There is no logical 
> reason for there to be an inheritance hierarchy between Locator and 
> Locator2. That they are designed this way is due to implementation. It 
> is not good object oriented practice.

Not quite true.
The Locator interface provides entity related information, i.e. the
external Id (systemId, publicId). Even the line and column numbers
are specific to the 'current' entity. It makes sense to tie in other entity
related information, like XML version and encoding.

Karl


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