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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: XMLDev list <xml-dev-digest@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 1999 11:00:01 -0500
Khun Yee Fung <kyeefung@extend.com> writes:
> I have a question. Right now, the Xerces SAX implementation calls the
> comment() method when a comment is encountered in a DTD. Is this the
> intended behaviour?
It makes sense to use the proposed comment and the existing
processingInstruction callbacks for all comments and
processingInstructions in a document.
> As to whether element and attribute declarations are useful for downstream
> processing. I did find a use. In XPath, there is a function called 'id()'
> which returns a node with a certain ID. Without getting access to the DTD,
> it is actually quite difficult to find out which attribute is the ID of an
> element.
Well, you can also iterate through the AttributeList using getType().
All the best,
David
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