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Re: SAX2: relative ordering of startDocument() & startDTD() events?

  • From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
  • To: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:47:05 -0800

Re: SAX2: relative ordering of startDocument() & startDTD() events?
David Megginson wrote:
> 
> David Brownell writes:
> 
>  > Keeping in mind that the most common example of this problem is
>  >
>  >     <element attribute="some &entity; &references; are here"/>
>  >
>  > I'd think basically anyone actually trying to use the start/end entity
>  > callbacks would conclude that they just can't work.
> 
> How about if we renamed them to start/endExternalEntity and forgot
> altogether about signalling internal entity boundaries?

That'd work for me.  (Just saw this note, sorry -- mailer troubles.)

But I don't think I really understand the requirement here.  I know
that DOM exposes such boundaries.  But every time I've tried to do
anything with them in a DOM that produced them, I had to write code
to rip them out -- they're just trouble.  Is there another source of
a requirement for such boundaries, other than partial DOM support?
Because I'd as soon not reinforce that troublesome part of DOM.

Were this feature to stay, would those boundaries need to be reported,
or would this be exposed in a feature flag?  Or would the meanings
of the existing {ex,in}ternal-entities feature flags cover that issue?

- Dave

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