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David Megginson wrote: > > Juergen Modre writes: > > > > In an ideal world, we'd also have some kind of ability to ask to > > > parser to turn validation on or off, but I'm not certain that that's > > > practical: any thoughts? > > I thinks that is practical and necessary. > > > > One solution would be to have methods like: > > void setValidation(boolean validation) > > boolean getValidation() > > > > These methods can be called before starting to parse with > > the parse() method. > > It's trickier than this -- for example, we'd probably have to create > an exception that is thrown if the underlying parser does not support > validation; Correct. My example was just a first naive try. > furthermore, none of the parsers that I've looked at > supports a toggle like this, and we will be forcing another design > decision on them if we require this toggle. There are already XML parsers allowing this toggle. For instance DXP has this capability. I think it would be good to have methods that allow to set a parser into well-formedness or validation mode. > > I also think a parse method with an systemId only as parameter would be > > convenient. (With targeting to users rather new to XML > > and not very used to the publicId's). > > > > public abstract void parse (String systemId) > > > > This would also avoid the need to call every time > > entityHandler.resolveEntity() to resolve the Entity. > > It might be simpler, though I'm trying to keep the number of methods > to a minimum. Okay. All the best Juergen ----------------------------------------------- JUERGEN MODRE Reisdorf 6 A-9371 Brueckl Austria (Europe) Phone: ++43 4214 2320 Mobile: ++43 664 233 22 22 E-mail: jmodre@e... WWW: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~jmodre ----------------------------------------------- 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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