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Re: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity

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• Subject: Re: SAX Locator vs {start,end}Entity
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:56:26 -0500
• References: <200302201850.SAA24303@m...>

> >Why not store the entity declarations in a hash table, hashed by name?
> 
> Yes, that might be a good way to do it.
> 
> Of course the entity declarations will have the (maybe absolutized)
> system ID rather than the maybe-redirected retrieval URI, since they
> aren't normally fetched at the time they're declared.

True.
 
> But at least I would know which were external entities.  (Internal
> entity boundaries are not relevant to base URI calculation.)

And if you could get your SAX parser to call back on the
EntityResolver2 interface, it might give you the BaseURI.
 
> When I started, I wasn't expecting to have to look at the entity
> declarations at all!

Well, SAX is for real men! ;-)

Karl

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