xml-dev - Re: SAX2 Lexical Handler Suggestions

[Chris Pratt <chris@planetpratt.com>]

Sorry, I didn't mean authoring system, I meant delivery system.  And yes,
it's a modified version of your edition of AElfred2.
    (*Chris*)

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: "Chris Pratt" <chris@planetpratt.com>; "XML-DEV" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: SAX2 Lexical Handler Suggestions


> > I can see that you come from the same camp as most XML programmers I've
> > encountered, which I would sum up as "XML is for documents, why would
you
> > want it to do anything more".
>
> I'd put it differently:  SAX is a "Simple" API for XML ...
>
>
> >     Our system is a web based authoring system
>
> ... and it's quite well known that editors require quite
> a lot more than "Simple" functionality.  In fact they
> usually demand all kinds of extra information which the
> XML infoset explicitly discarded using the 80/20% rule.
> (IMHO more lie 99/1 in this case.)
>
> After seeing bits and pieces of editor requirements for
> several years now, I think that if SAX is to support
> that functionality it should be through specific APIs
> (EditorHandler, maybe) addressing editor issues.  If your
> itch involves having such features, I suggest you scratch
> it in that way.  (I don't like how DOM cluttered up the
> 80% simple case with incomplate support for someone's 20%,
> which btw is often labeled as "editor" stuff, and want to
> see SAX stay uncluttered.)
>
> It would need to expose at least part of a token level
> event stream ... so that editors would not play with the
> whitespace separating attributes (or outside of the root
> element), rearrange attributes, change text encodings for
> documents, and so on.
>
>
> >     As
> > far as knowing the actual attribute's raw text I need some way to match
> > which attributes were entities
>
> "contained" ??
>
> >     that were expanded by the processor and which
> > were entered by the user and having the information about which are
default
> > attributes and which were actually from the XML document is very handy
to
> > save space in the downloaded HTML.  I know that SAX parser absolutely
can
> > handle these changes, since I have a modified version of the AElfred2
parser
> > that currently supports them.
>
> Hmm ... which version is that?  My version ("original" AElfred2")
> didn't do that, last I recall.  Please forward patches ("diff -u").
>
> - Dave
>
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