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David Megginson wrote: > > The only way that I can resolve this correctly is if I know the URI of > the current external entity. In Lark, you provide this information > with a separate Entity argument to each callback; this is a legitimate > (and more powerful) option, but from the perspective of SAX, it ends > up complicating the entire API instead of just adding two > easily-ignored callbacks. It is possible to have "invisible arguments" to a callback that do not complicate the interface. This sounds very mysterious, but an "invisible argument" is just a variable whose value can be fetched through a parser method. getCurrentEntity() or getFileEncoding() would be examples. I think that this is the right way to handle this entity problem. Require the parser to track the information rather than the application. Paul Prescod -- http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew. -- Robertson Davies in "The Cunning Man" 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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