[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: CDATA Section Support (was RE: SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1)
David Megginson wrote: > Ah, yes, but people who edit their XML in a text editor probably would > be capable of starting a command-line application. What I'm > suggesting is that *something* had to be written -- either the simple > filter or full CDATA support for all DOM applications. Full CDATA > support won (love it or leave it), but the other might have been a > little easier. Hmmm. If those are the choices, I vote for putting it in. Forcing all companies to write a quick little application and forcing all users to run a quick little application seems far more onerous than forcing DOM programmers to work around this. I wasn't even going to reply, but then I remembered that the real question here is whether SAX (not the DOM) should tell people about CDATA sections. I think the answer is yes. Unlike the DOM, where people not interested in CDATA sections still have to work around them, SAX applications that are not interested in CDATA sections simply have null implementations of start/endCDATA. The only drawback I see is that applications not interested in CDATA sections are forced to suffer through three calls to DocumentHandler.character -- before, during, and after the CDATA section. The application can use a filter to solve this, of course, but it's still likely to be a source of application errors. (Depending on how parsers implement LexicalHandler callbacks, this could happen even if the application doesn't register a LexicalHandler implementation. Does the property requesting a single call to character() apply in this case? It ought to.) -- Ron 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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