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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:19:05 +0100
From: Ugo Cei <u.cei@cbim.it>
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Subject: What is a Parser?
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Once upon a time there was a org.apache.cocoon.components.parser.Parser, 
but now it's deprecated. OK, so I think I should use the Excalibur 
parser component, which has recently been split into a SAX parser and a 
DOM parser.

Looking in excalibur-xmlutil-20030122.jar, I found this class: 
org.apache.excalibur.xml.sax.Parser. Maybe I can use that. This is my 
first try:

org.apache.excalibur.xml.sax.Parser saxParser = null;
try {
   saxParser = (org.apache.excalibur.xml.sax.Parser)
     manager.lookup(org.apache.excalibur.xml.sax.Parser.ROLE);
}
finally {
   if (saxParser != null) manager.release(saxParser);
}

Unfortunately, it doesn't compile, because Parser does not implement 
Component, so I resolve the problem with a cast:

   if (saxParser != null) manager.release((Component) saxParser);

I'm starting to feel a little bit confused, because I was not aware that 
in Java you could get away with that at compile time. Maybe I should 
have a look at the JLS, but since I'm lazy and my code runs, I figure 
I'd better ask cocoon-dev ;-).

Is this the kosher way of obtaining an XML parser in Cocoon 2.1?

To further complicate things, Eclipse does not like my little class 
which implements org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component, since 
it insists that the type Component is deprecated, along with 
ComponentManager. In order to play by the rules, I've removed 
"Component" from the interfaces my class implements, but Cocoon (or is 
it Excalibur?) barfs with a "ClassCastException" when I try to put it in 
cocoon.xconf. Well, I just put back the "implements Component" 
declaration and live with Eclipse's warnings, but I cannot help feeling 
a little disoriented about all this ;-).

	Ugo


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