From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T12:16:29+09:00
Subject: Re: good link to read as we contemplate RAA, RAA.succ, et al

Simon Cozens <simon@ermine.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> " JamesBritt" <james@jamesbritt.com> writes:
> > That's what popped into my mind, too.  A definitive name is great if
> > there is but one definitive module.
> 
> But as I mentioned, if there's a definitive name, you have to think
> more carefully about why you're writing a different module, and your
> name should reflect what's distinctive about it. Consider
> HTML::Parser, HTML::TokeParser and HTML::TreeBuilder. You can easily tell
> that they're all HTML parsing libraries but they have distinctive styles.

Then what would you call NQXML, REXML, and expat? Each is an XML parser.
Each supplies a SAX-like and DOM-like parser (I think). Sure, they have
different features and different implementations. They're essentially the
same thing at the core, though.

Which one gets the name XML::Parser?

Jim
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