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Richard Anderson writes: > For interest, have there been any developments of a 'lower level' > SAX to expose DTD info too ? We've talked about it -- I need to be convinced that there is a big enough demand for that (it would be useful only for very specialised applications). I think that the following for SAX 1.0 are probably higher priorities: 1. A proper specification for SAX (JavaDoc just doesn't cut it). 2. A test suite for SAX conformance. 3. Canonical SAX interfaces for Perl (on top of XML:Parser) and C++. After that, we need to decide if the benefits of a new version of SAX outweight the enormous compatibility problems that will result. If we decide that a new version is worthwhile, here's what I think will be most important: 1. Better control/querying of parser features (validating/non-validating, includes/does not include external parameter/general entities, provides/does not provide locators, etc.). 2. A canonical interface for SAX filters (probably based on Cowan's work). 3. A bit more core library functionality (including constructing an absolute URL from a file name). 4. A new (optional) handler type for lexical information that can optionally be included in the DOM, such as comments and the document type declaration. This will have to track the XML-Infoset work, and parsers would not be required to support it. This would all be convenient, but is it worth outdating all existing SAX implementations just to add it? Parser writers, for example, may have to deal with hundreds more bug reports (each) because of people using the wrong version of the SAX interface. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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