xml-dev - Re: SAX: Missing ESIS Information

[Peter Murray-Rust <peter@ursus.demon.co.uk>]

Thanks David,

At 06:45 08/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Peter Murray-Rust writes:
>
> > Can I assume that it is possible to create a full ESIS stream using
SAX? If
> > not, I'd be slightly worried and would like to know what had been omitted.
> > [You can see I'm not an expert :-)].
>
>Here, off the top of my head, is the main XML information missing from
>SAX but available in the ESIS output of NSGMLS:
>
>- attribute types

Tricky one, this. I can see the logic in keeping these in, especially where
entities are involved. OTOH they are the sort of information that
distinguishes simple WF docs (i.e. no internal/external subsets) from those
with subsets. [BTW we need a terminology for these various types of
documents...].  The WG has already realised the problem of ID by (I think
in XSL) treating *attributeNames* of ID as special (since it recognises
that not all authors may declare the *attributeType*).


>- public and system identifiers for notations

I can live without this. But others may not be able to do so :-)

>- notation and public and system identifiers for external data entities

This is part of what we've been discussing, right?

>
>There has been no agreement on whether this information belongs in
>SAX, and I welcome further discussion.

Suggest that you rephrase it as questions.  e.g. Q11 "Should SAX be able to
recreate an ESIS stream?" I'd want good evidence why. [One reason could be
that in that way one can easily compare the output of parsers, and also
compare it with nsgmls and other ESIS-aware tools.]

	P.

Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic
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