• From: David Megginson <ak117@f...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 13:37:04 -0500

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.


All the best,


David

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