xml-dev - Re: SAX2: AttributeList2 and EntityRefList

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

John Cowan writes:
 > David Megginson scripsit:
 > 
 > > So, after some thought, here's what I came up with.  This is a special 
 > > interface providing indexes to zero or more entity references in a
 > > literal string (i.e. an attribute value).  The indices are based on
 > > whatever array indices the programming language is using, exclusive of 
 > > Unicode problems with combining characters, etc. (i.e. any
 > > normalisation must already have taken place).
 > 
 > What about references to unknown entities, though?  They don't contribute
 > any characters at all, and so don't fit your model.

Actually, they fit in fine -- the start and end positions will simply
be the same.


All the best,


David

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