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RE: Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again

• To: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: RE: Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:15:53 -0500
• Cc: "'Karl Waclawek'" <karl@w...>, <xml-dev@l...>,<sax-devel@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20040228185229.BHNQ21785.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>
• References: <20040228185229.BHNQ21785.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>

At 6:52 PM +0000 2/28/04, Michael Kay wrote:
># > Taking this argument to extremes, is it acceptable for a parser not
># > to call startDocument? Just to call fatalError? I have caught parsers
># > doing this, especially when the error is very early in the document;
># > e.g. in the byte order mark or the XML declaration.
>#
># I would say that at this point the document has started
>
>So what constitutes a document "starting"? What happens if no resource with
>the given System ID can be found?

That's an I/O error and the parser throws an IOException but does not 
call startDocument, fatalError, or endDocument.

>  What happens if a resource can be found,
>but it is zero-length?

The resource is malformed. The parser calls startDocument, 
fatalError, and endDocument.

>  What happens if there is a timeout while trying to
>fetch the resource?

This is also an I/O error and the parser throws an IOException and 
does not call startDocument, fatalError, or endDocument.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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