Re: Handler for xml declaration

[Jenny Lam <jlam_sojourn@yahoo.com>]

Charles,

If I choose to stay with SAX instead of using DOM, is
there a work around to retrieve the xml declaration
info from the parser?

Thanks,
Jenny
--- Charles Reitzel <creitzel@mediaone.net> wrote:
> The DOM supports this, as does expat, XML::Parser in
> Perl.  
> SAX doesn't.
> 
> My theory why not is that SAX deals primarily w/ an
> InputSource.  
> You need all the information in the XML declaration
> to fire up 
> the right parser (version) and create a correct
> InputSource 
> (encoding).  The standalone "attribute" is only a
> hint, really.
> 
> To get more info on the SAX2 extensions, check out
> the API docs 
> for Apache Xerces at http://xml.apache.org.
> 
> take it easy,
> Charles Reitzel
> 
> At 05:53 AM 3/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is there a handler package that have a method for
> >xmlDecl?  I read through the xml-dev archive and
> found
> >some old links that point to a package called
> >LexicalHandler in the SAX2 api.  I downloaded the
> SAX2
> >and its extension package from David Megginson
> >website; no xmlDecl method.  Does anyone know why
> it
> >was removed?  Any other method for getting  the xml
> >declaration from the parser?  
> >
> >TIA
> >Jenny
> >
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> take it easy,
> Charles Reitzel
> 
> 


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