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Lars Marius Garshol writes: > > * David Megginson > | > | public abstract void xmlDecl (String version, > | String encoding, > | String standalone) > | throws SAXException; > > Should we perhaps make standalone a boolean instead? It can only have > two values anyway, and this will spare us a lot of > standalone.equals(this or that). Duh! <sound effect="loud slap on forehead"/> … thanks for catching that one. > | public abstract void startDTD (String doctype, > | String publicID, > | String systemID) > | throws SAXException; > > I think naming doctype docelem or rootelem would be better. It took me > a couple of seconds to figure out what it meant. Agreed -- I'll rename it to "root". > | public abstract void startEntity (String name) > | throws SAXException; > > Is this sufficient? Now we don't even know whether it's internal or > external. I know EntityResolver can be used to get that information > (including sysid and pubid), but I'd much rather see it included here > as well, since IMHO EntityResolver fills a separate role from the data > handlers. Often one would want to plug in a separate component there. Actually, this is a sin of omission, but of a different kind -- I was intending to add an extra note saying that entity declarations will be reported through the DTDDeclHandler, which I'll be posting next. In other words, if the parser supports http://xml.org/sax/handlers/dtd-decl, you'll already have obtained the information about the attribute declaration and all you need here is the name. > How about this? > > public abstract void startEntity (String name, String publicID, > String systemID) > throws SAXException; > > If systemID is null we know it is an external entity. Alternatively, > we could have a separate callback for external entities. (You mean "If systemID is null we know it is an *internal* entity"). The problem is that a non-validating parser that does not read the external DTD subset might not have seen the declaration for the entity, so a null systemID is no guarantee that the entity was declared internal. Thanks, and 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/ 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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