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SAX and DTD-reading

• From: Philip Arickx <philip@e...>
• To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:57:48 +0100

Hi all,

Question :

is there any way, with SAX, to determine how an attribute was defined, if
this happened thru an entity ?

To be more specific : I'm writing a WBXML encoder, enabling one to encode
XML into a WBXML bytecode stream. What I need it for is for encoding WML to
WMLC.
Now, certain specifications in WMLC state that if an attribute was defined
as %href; (or whatever), such and such defaults apply. My problem is, when I
use the DeclHandler, all I get back as attribute definition is CDATA (which
is what %href; resolves to).

Since I want to make the stuff as open as possible (it is going to be
released as open source, so it'd better be neat :-) ), and I want to be able
to put in new wbxml standards easily, I'm looking for a good way to
determine the entity used for defining the attribute - short of parsing the
DTD myself (which I think is overkill).

Is it at all possible with any parser ? Using SAX ?

Thanx !!

Philip Arickx
Empower Interactive

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