xml-dev - Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Proposed SAX Revisions

[Lisa Rein <lisarein@finetuning.com>]

just a polite second about DOCTYPE.  Leave it in please.

Please, oh please, leave it in. :-)

thank you (oh thank you)

lisa


David G. Durand wrote:
> 
> I read the revisions, and they're very sensible. But I have one deletion
> request, and one addition request.
> 
> I don't believe the arguments about the uselessness of Doctype. Until this
> proposal, I didn't see any reason to argue about it, however. Leave
> Doctype in. Those who find it useless won't use it. It's sure not so
> hard to implement that requiring it is a hardship on parser writers, so I
> fail to see why it shouldn't be kept.
> 
> Please, please, please, allow me a way to find out if an element was
> "empty". (i.e. written <e/>). I use this information when I write DTDs, and
> intend to continue doing so. I also know, from the long discussions in the
> XML-SIG that I am not alone in using this syntax to represent a distinction
> that I want preserved and detectable by applications.
> 
> Probably the best way to handle this might be to have an extra flag argument
> on the element end event (to indicate this element end was not present in
> the document). This lets people who care about whether an element was empty
> find out, without greatly inconveniencing people who want to follow the
> simpler "every element is a container" model.
> 
>   -- David
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