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Seems like a good fit for filters--drop what you don't want, transform the rest as needed. Bill -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell <db@e...> To: MikeDacon@a... <MikeDacon@a...> Cc: xml-dev@i... <xml-dev@i...> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 5:58 PM Subject: Re: ModSax Suggestion >Interesting suggestion for a big hole in the parts of >the Java API set that are more or less "standard" at >this poit -- SAX and DOM. > >One comment though: I've found that it's important to >be able to have options controlling how the DOM tree is >built. For example, whether to discard ignorable spaces, >or do namespace conformance enforcement, or try to get >CDATA sections (comments, etc). > >Accordingly, I think being able to do a bit more than >this will be important. > >- Dave > > > >MikeDacon@a... wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> While SAX does a good job as an event-based interface >> to Parsers, it would be nice to add a few methods to >> receive a DOM representation back from a reference to an org.xml.sax.Parser. >> >> Something like: >> >> org.w3c.dom.Document parse(InputSource is, boolean events) throws >> SAXException; >> org.w3c.dom.Document parse(java.lang.String uri, boolean events) throws >> SAXException; >> /* the events boolean would be to turn on/off event calls. */ >> >> If a SAXDriver did not want to produce a DOM, it could either simply >> return a null or a method added like: >> >> boolean isDomCapable(); >> >> The above would let me use the ParserFactory to seamlessly switch >> between Parser implementations and get a DOM tree without building >> one myself. It is fruitless for me to build a DOM tree when almost all >> the parser implementations provide that ability. I just want a way to get >> at that functionality in a simple and standard way (thus SAX). >> >> Thoughts? >> >> - Mike >> ----------------------------------------------- >> Michael C. Daconta >> Author of Java 2 and JavaScript for C/C++ Programmers >> Author of C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management >> Sun Certified Java Programmer and Developer >> http://www.gosynergy.com >> >> 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 >> 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...) > >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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 >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...) > 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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