• From: Ron Daniel <RDaniel@D...>
• To: "XML Developers' List" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:26:49 -0800

I agree with Simon that getting the content model
as a string is a reasonable choice. A seperate interface
could be put into the helpers package for help in
parsing the content model, but lets keep that out of the
critical path.

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Simon St.Laurent [SMTP:simonstl@s...]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 25, 1999 8:29 AM
> To:	David Megginson; XML Developers' List
> Subject:	Re: SAX2: DTDDeclHandler (minimalist position)
> 
> At 09:21 AM 3/25/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> >Here's the second of the three new core handler types I'm proposing
> >for SAX2.  This handler takes a minimalist position: it provides
> >about enough information for DOM support, but not much more.  In
> >particular, I'm still shying away from reporting element-type
> >declarations, at least until someone shows me an easy and concise way
> >of doing it (in AElfred, I simply provided the content model as a
> >fully-normalised string).
> 
> A fully-normalized string is fine with me - I'd rather get it as a
> string
> and parse it myself than have to deal with something freaky a parser
> developer really didn't want to have to code anyway.  But this info is
> NECESSARY if anyone (me in particular) wants to build a validation
> engine
> that lives outside the core parser.
> 
> How about:
> 
>     public abstract void elementDecl (String name,
> 					String contentModel)
> 	throws SAXException;
> 
> I like it, anyway.
> 
> Simon St.Laurent
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