xml-dev - RE: SAX2: DeclHandler

[Khun Yee Fung <kyeefung@extend.com>]

Thanks for the info. The getType() solution is actually a better solution
for me. I should have checked SAX better before going for DeclHandler, I
guess.

Regards,
Khun Yee


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	David Megginson [mailto:david@megginson.com]
		Sent:	Wednesday, December 22, 1999 11:00 AM
		To:	XMLDev list
		Subject:	Re: SAX2: DeclHandler

		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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