I don't see why it's not a good fit for Commons. We've a few xml related components in the dormant section. I think a component with things for both SAX and DOM would be fine, and letting it grow organically would also work well.
Hen On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In the Apache Tika project [1] we use SAX quite a lot, and have > written a set of quite useful general utility classes for SAX > handling. > > For example, in org.apache.tika.sax [2] we have the following: > > * ContentHandlerDecorator - Convenient base class for writing > ContentHandler decorators > * EmbeddedContentHandler - Decorator that blocks startDocument() and > endDocument() calls > * TeeContentHandler - Forwards SAX events to multiple handlers > * TextContentHandler - Decorator that blocks everything but character > events (and start/endDocument) > * WriteOutContentHandler - Writes the contents of all character events > to a Writer > > In org.apache.tika.sax.xpath [3] we have a simple XPath subset > implementation that supports streaming and filtering of SAX events. In > other words, the implementation doesn't need a DOM tree to evaluate > XPath statements. > > I believe this code would be useful also outside Tika, and I was > thinking that it might perhaps make sense to create a Commons project > for this. I also know of some SAX processing classes in Cocoon and > Jackrabbit that could well be of interest to a wider audience. > > Do you think something like this would be interesting as a Commons > project? Are there other similar efforts that I should know of? I > looked at XML Commons in xml.apache.org, but it seems pretty dormant. > > [1] http://lucene.apache.org/tika/ > [2] > http://lucene.apache.org/tika/apidocs/org/apache/tika/sax/package-summary.html > [3] > http://lucene.apache.org/tika/apidocs/org/apache/tika/sax/xpath/package-summary.html > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
