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Ronald Bourret wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand -- how would a SAX filter help the DOM? > If you are > building a DOM tree from SAX 1.0 events, there are no entity references, > etc. -- the most you could get is multiple text nodes (from multiple > callbacks to DocumentHandler.characters()), which the normalize() > method can > handle. (There is also a SAX filter somewhere that bundles > multiple calls to > character() into a single call.) Similarly, if you were > generating SAX 1.0 > events from DOM, the most you could get is multiple calls to character(). > The issue is how to present a certain normalized view of an XML document (with entities). A SAX filter might expand entities into text,normalize text and hence present this logical view of an XML document. This view can serve as the input to either a DOM or another piece of software which provides a DocumentHandler/ContentHandler interface. Jonathan Borden http://www.openhealth.org
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