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   Re: SAX2: relative ordering of startDocument() & startDTD() events?

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  • From: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
  • To: XML-DEV <xml-dev@xml.org>
  • Date: 24 Feb 2000 11:25:57 -0600

David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> writes:

> David Megginson wrote:
> > 
> > David Brownell writes:
> > 
> >  > > How about if we renamed them to start/endExternalEntity and
> >  > > forgot altogether about signalling internal entity
> >  > > boundaries?
> >  >
> >  > That'd work for me.  (Just saw this note, sorry -- mailer
> >  > troubles.)
> 
> I forgot to mention: it's not "external" entities that are the
> issue, so some other name would be needed:
> 
> 	<foo> &bar; </foo>
> 
> can be sanely reported regardless of whether "bar" is internal or
> external ... so some other rename would be needed to address such
> issues.  {start,end}ContentEntity maybe?

In several cases I would prefer internalEntityReference() and
externalEntityReference() event handlers that simply report the
reference but do not resolve the reference, or that call back the
parser to further resolve them.

  -- Ken

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