Re: Handler for xml declaration

[Charles Reitzel <creitzel@mediaone.net>]

Use Expat directly, instead of via the SAX driver.  Originally written by James Clark, it is now maintained on Source Forge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/.  If you are working in Perl, use can use the XML::Parser module (which uses expat and exposes this capability).

At 08:35 PM 3/12/01 -0800, Jenny Lam wrote:
>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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take it easy,
Charles Reitzel