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Re: SAX: Document Start and End (question 1 of 10)

  • From: Paul Prescod <papresco@t...>
  • To: xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 15:09:01 -0500

Re: SAX: Document Start and End (question 1 of 10)
Tim Bray wrote:
> >  <?foo bar?>
> >  <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "doc.dtd">
> >
> >I have to queue the PI event(s) until I have found the DOCTYPE
> 
> Why?  The PI is 'before' the doc in any meaningful sense... so they
> get some PI events before they get the startDocument event.  Is this
> a problem? -Tim

The XML document starts with the production labelled "document." This
includes the PIs before the doctypedecl.

 Paul Prescod
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				-- Robertson Davies in "The Cunning Man"



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