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SAX-ext proposal #1: standalone flag

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: xml-dev@l..., sax-devel@l...
• Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:04:43 -0700

Document infoset extension

- One of the infoset properties for documents is not supported by
  SAX2:  whether it is standalone.

PROPOSAL

    - Define a new standard feature ID:

 http://xml.org/sax/features/is-standalone
   Read-only; only visible while parsing

   If true, the document was declared as standalone.
   If false, it was either declared as standalone='no',
   or no standalone declaration was present.
    
QUESTIONS:

    - Is it necessary to distinguish "no standalone decl"?  If so
      accessing that feature could throw SAXNotSupportedException.
      It's a bit more work from parsers to track that.

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