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At 13:37 04/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Tim Bray writes: > > > Agreed. Could we change the first method to > > startDocument(String root, String DTDSysID, String DTDPubID) > > these obviously each being null in the event the document doesn't > > provide them? -Tim > >This is a great idea, but it will require an implementation to queue >events. For example, if I have > > <?foo bar?> > <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd"> > >I have to queue the PI event(s) until I have found the DOCTYPE, so >that I will know the root element type and the URI of the external >DTD. If this information is important (and others have argued that it >is), then a separate docType() event would probably be appropriate. I have (sort of) run into this problem in JUMBO. Since I do not (yet) know how any PI is going to be used (or what additional PIs or PI-like syntax the WG will put forward) I have had to keep some sort of track of PIs regardless of where they come. It could be logical to say that all PIs before the DOCTYPE were ignored, but then we could find that the WG used such PIs for something in the future. It's probably also necessary to assume that order matters for PIs (i.e. they may be used to switch behaviour on or off). [That's the problem of trying to support something like PIs, whose function is (deliberately) left undefined :-)]. P. > > >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson ak117@f... >Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... > http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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