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Re: SAX and DTD-reading

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: Philip Arickx <philip@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:21:43 -0700

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

When "how" means knowing something about the literal value
of a string, with parameter entities ... no, it's not possible.

To get access to that level of information, you'd need an API
that exposes lexical tokens (such as '"', '%href;', '"' for a
value in an attribute or entity declaration).  That's not IMHO
the domain of a "Simple API for XML", but one could use the SAX2
extension mechanism to expose such an API through the SAX API.

- Dave

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