[Biojava-l] Revised Parser

Cox, Greg gcox@netgenics.com
Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:46:51 -0500


I'm revising the parsers to log a message when they come across a location
they don't understand, and continue processing the file; instead of throwing
an exception and bombing out.  This will let us push off issues like the
remote location problem.  I have a question for the list:

	Should these revised parsers supplement or replace the current
parsers?  I.e., is anyone's program going to break if bad files are
partially processed instead of crashing the program?  A log message is
written to System.err so it's not a silent failure.

	If you'd like this to be a second parser instead of replacing the
original, I'd appriciate a name for it; I can't come up with a good one.

	Greg