xml-dev - Re: SAX: org.xml.sax.AttributeMap

[David Megginson <ak117@freenet.carleton.ca>]

James Clark writes:

 > I agree that SAX ought to provide access to unparsed entities but I
 > don't think this is the right way to achieve it.  For a start, I can
 > have an ENTITIES attribute, so all these methods would need two
 > arguments (the index of the attribute in the attribute list, and the
 > index of the token in the value).

An excellent point, and one that I missed in the original SAX.

 > I think a better approach is for the processor at the end of the prolog
 > to pass an object to the application that provides information about all
 > the declared notations and unparsed entities.
 >
 > XP has a DTD object that does this, but it might be better to call it
 > something else (like UnparsedEntitySet) since SAX might someday be
 > extended to provide full DTD access.

This is a good idea, but I need to find a way to avoid using the
Java-specific Enumeration class that your example uses (since I've
already eliminated it from AttributeList).


All the best,


David

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