XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 11:06 PM -0700 9/29/02, O'Brien-Strain, Eamonn wrote:


> Perhaps, though I am a little bit suspicious of overuse of unchecked 
> exceptions.  Despite some of the arguments against checked 
> exceptions (like the tendency of harried programmers to swallow them 
> in their code rather than propagating them or otherwise dealing with 
> them) I still think the explicit declarations make for safer code. 
> However I do think that some of the arguments that you and Bruce 
> Eckel make are pretty valid, and perhaps I will change my mind on 
> this one.

The really telling point here is that it beats no exceptions. Sparta 
dislikes exceptions so much that it isn't even making the checks so 
that errors can go completely undetected. Runtime exceptions are a 
step up from that.
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