Continued development of XMLPull

How much interest is there in continued development of XMLPull? I know 
that StAX was supposed to basically take over, but it looks like a 
kludge in many respects. I'd personally prefer to see XMLPull continue, 
and would be willing to work on getting the XML support to the required 
level for full compliance (right now the main problem that I'm aware of 
is entity handling; I think this can be done by layering, though it 
might take some tweaks to the API).

I'd think an XMLPull 2 API that made use of the CharSequence approach 
(not only for getText(), but also for things like attribute values) 
would be a great next step. I'd also love to see an XML processing API 
that actually showed some sense in the use of names and namespaces 
(using QName and Namespace objects, rather than the damned text strings 
that everybody has to process and reprocess). I'd expect that an API of 
this type would be faster than the current low-level API while also 
reducing overhead for the applications that build on top of the parser.

  - Dennis

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Dennis M. Sosnoski
Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services
Training and Consulting
http://www.sosnoski.com
Redmond, WA  425.885.7197




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