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- From: Ronald Bourret <rbourret@ito.tu-darmstadt.de>
- To: "'XML Developers' List'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:13:22 +0100
David Megginson wrote:
> Ah, yes, but people who edit their XML in a text editor probably would
> be capable of starting a command-line application. What I'm
> suggesting is that *something* had to be written -- either the simple
> filter or full CDATA support for all DOM applications. Full CDATA
> support won (love it or leave it), but the other might have been a
> little easier.
Hmmm. If those are the choices, I vote for putting it in. Forcing all
companies to write a quick little application and forcing all users to run
a quick little application seems far more onerous than forcing DOM
programmers to work around this.
I wasn't even going to reply, but then I remembered that the real question
here is whether SAX (not the DOM) should tell people about CDATA sections.
I think the answer is yes. Unlike the DOM, where people not interested in
CDATA sections still have to work around them, SAX applications that are
not interested in CDATA sections simply have null implementations of
start/endCDATA.
The only drawback I see is that applications not interested in CDATA
sections are forced to suffer through three calls to
DocumentHandler.character -- before, during, and after the CDATA section.
The application can use a filter to solve this, of course, but it's still
likely to be a source of application errors. (Depending on how parsers
implement LexicalHandler callbacks, this could happen even if the
application doesn't register a LexicalHandler implementation. Does the
property requesting a single call to character() apply in this case? It
ought to.)
-- Ron
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