XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 8:43 AM -0400 7/23/03, John Cowan wrote:

> I guess it's too late for this, but is there any hope of my convincing
> you that your unchecked exceptions should really be Errors?  Your
> contract is to invoke an unchecked exception when the programmer has
> blundered, rather than the data being bad.  This is precisely the
> contract of Error.

That's a new one to me. Where did you get that idea from? It's very 
unusualfor a Java program to throw an Error. Errors almost always 
indicate a failure in the VM that can rarely be predicted or handled, 
e.g. OutOfMemoryError or ClassFormatError. Very few user programs 
should ever throw or even handle errors. The contract of error is not 
that the programmer has blundered. It's that the VM has failed in 
some way.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA