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After a few months of intense busy-ness (and business), plus a trip to XTech that I'm still recovering from, I'm finally catching up to ModSAX. Printed it all out, looked it all over, and mostly I'm very pleased. I think it'll make implementing my Layered Model proposal as a a Layered Parser much easier overall. One key thing is missing at this stage, and that's a feature. At 08:16 PM 3/9/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Here's my revised version of the core feature list, based on recent >discussions: > > >ModSAX Core Features >-------------------- > >http://xml.org/sax/features/validation > Validate (true) or don't validate (false). > >http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities > Expand external general entities (true) or don't expand (false). > >http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities > Expand external parameter entities (true) or don't expand (false). > >http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces > Preprocess namespaces (true) or don't preprocess (false). See also > the http://xml.org/sax/properties/namespace-sep property. > >http://xml.org/sax/features/normalize-text > Ensure that all consecutive text is returned in a single callback to > DocumentHandler.characters or DocumentHandler.ignorableWhitespace > (true) or explicitly do not require it (false). > We need: http://xml.org/sax/features/external-subset Requires the parser to load the external subset of the DTD and process it. (External parameter entities remain a separate issue referenced by a separate feature.) This is critically important for attribute defaulting, which makes things like XLink much much simpler. At one point I switched parsers, only to find that my attribute values in the external subset had all disappeared. I promptly jumped back. The spec (5.1) allows non-validating parsers to skip the external subset; I'd very much like to have a way to tell the parser not to skip it, or at least know that they are in fact being skipped. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Building XML Applications (April) Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.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...)
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