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David Megginson wrote: > Should SAX include an event for comments? > > public void comment (char ch[], int length); No. This is appropriate only for editor type applications, which also typically need to be able to preserve entity structure. Unless SAX also provides enough information to support preservation of the entity structure, it shouldn't provide information about comments. Providing adequate information about the entity structure would prevent SAX from being simple. A startEntity and endEntity event is far from adequate for this: consider internal entity references in attribute values for example. > PRO > --- > > - the DOM includes comments in the core level-one implementation; My understanding is that the DOM is also going to provide full information about the entity structure to support editor type applications. > - HyTime uses comments for lexical constraints. I don't think HyTime 2 puts information intended for machine processing in comments any longer. Anyway these comments were inside markup declarations, and so would not be allowed in XML. James 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/ 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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