xml-dev - Re: entity reference

[Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@hotmail.com>]

Jonathan Borden wrote:

>Ronald Bourret wrote:
> > Note that the DOM has a normalize() method for joining sibling text 
>nodes.
> > Unfortunately, this still leaves CDATA nodes, entity references, 
>comments,
> > etc. in place. What this method really needs is a flag that will 
>normalize
> > all "logical" sibling text -- remove comments, expand entities, join the
> > resulting text nodes, etc.
> >
>
>     This would be a really useful function to be implemented as a SAX
>filter, if this hasn't been done already.

I'm not sure I understand -- how would a SAX filter help the DOM? If you are 
building a DOM tree from SAX 1.0 events, there are no entity references, 
etc. -- the most you could get is multiple text nodes (from multiple 
callbacks to DocumentHandler.characters()), which the normalize() method can 
handle. (There is also a SAX filter somewhere that bundles multiple calls to 
character() into a single call.) Similarly, if you were generating SAX 1.0 
events from DOM, the most you could get is multiple calls to character().

-- Ron Bourret
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