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From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Digester] New rules
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:37:25 +0000
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On 4 Mar 2004, at 07:59, J=F6rg Schaible wrote:
> Simon Kitching wrote on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:54 PM:

<snip>

>> In some ways it's nice,
>> because it is obvious to users, but of course every rule
>> added to Digester increases the jar size, the API complexity,
>> and the maintenance load.
>
> Will this be addressed in Digester2 ? I was really astonished, that=20
> the digester itself has a method for any known rule. This makes the=20
> usage of self-written ones not too obvious. Personally I would=20
> eliminate/deprecate all of them and just offer addRule. But this is=20
> getting OT for this thread, for D2 I have other annotations anyway :)

users pretty much demand that these methods are added.

the problem is that these methods do introduce an unhelpful coupling=20
and add to the footprint. it's just one of those things that's=20
unfortunate but probably not positively harmful.

one of the solutions that i've been turning over in my mind would be to=20=

introduce a DigesterEngine superclass that would be a minimal=20
stripped-down version without the dependency on those rules. that could=20=

be done without breaking backwards compatibility. on the other hand,=20
i've never felt motivated to add this since it's not really an itch for=20=

me.

- robert=


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