xml-dev - Re: SAX: Next Round

[Lars Marius Garshol <larsga@ifi.uio.no>]

* Lars Marius Garshol
| 
| An event to signal the end of the internal subset would be nice, in
| addition to what you listed.

* david@megginson.com
| 
| You'd get that through the start/endExternalEntity event -- the
| external subset is just a special entity, read after the internal
| subset (we might want to use the special name '[dtd]' for it).

I should have thought of this, of course, and, yes, I think we should
use a separate name for the external subset entity, to make it easier
to identify. Doing so isn't as clean as we might wish, but I can't
think of any good alternatives offhand.

| SAX in general is designed to be bothersome, in part to encourage
| people to build decent, friendly interfaces (SAXON, MDSAX,
| DocuverseSDK, Sun's XML library) on top of it.  The idea is to defer
| any design decisions that we can defer.

Yeah, I know, and I agree. I think it's the right way to go.

--Lars M.


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