Re: Locator position

David Megginson wrote:

>
>Originally, SAX was designed to work with existing XML parsers -- it
>was only later that things turned around and people started designing
>parsers to work with SAX.  Reporting a position right after the markup
>worked best with the existing XML parsers.
>
>Actually, I'm not sure I see the advantage of reporting a position
>before or inside.  Ideally, you'd have the whole range (start-end),
>but if you cannot have that, one position is just as good as another
>for reporting errors to the user.
>  
>

I have thought this is quite arbitrary, just hasn't been sure. The 
reason why I ask is that we are specifying the locator behavior for Perl 
SAX and we want neither introduce unnecessary differences from Java nor 
follow the Java API blindly.

Thanks,
Petr

-- 
Petr Cimprich
Ginger Alliance
www.gingerall.com



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