Re: [Pnet-developers] [bug #4195] XmlTextReader uses XmlStreamReader instead of StreamReader

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:30 am, address@hidden wrote:

> Original Submission:  XmlTextReader should be using StreamReader and not
> XmlStreamReader.  XmlStreamReader appears to be identical to StreamReader. 
> Keeping fixes synchronised between the two would be painful :-.

XmlStreamReader was deliberately forked from StreamReader because the handling 
of encodings, particularly UCS-4, is different from the base class and the 
base class cannot be modified to incorporate the differences without breaking 
the specification.  The manner in which encodings are detected is also 
different.  Yes, it is painful, but it is necessary.  MS also uses a separate 
class.

Cheers,

Rhys.