xml-dev - Re: General SAX2 Observations

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Jon Smirl writes:

 > But what if you don't know the stylesheet ahead of time and it's name is
 > being computed dynamically?
 > 1) create the XML parser
 > 2) call parse()
 > 3) catch the pi event and get the name of the stylesheet
 > 4) Create the XSLProcessor object
 > 5) call parse() on the XSLProcessor
 > 6) get the document handler from XSLProcessor
 > 7) set the parser's document handler to be the XSLProcessor
 > 8) But now you're stuck, if you return out of parse() the XSLProcessor will
 > terminate and not see the SAX events from the parser

I think that this is just a specific example of the recursive
processing problem.  When you find the stylesheet PI, you should
allocate a *new* parser object, process the stylesheet with it, then
continue with regular SAX processing in the original parser (in SAX2,
"Parser" becomes "XMLReader") which will not have lost track of your
original state.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david@megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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