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----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Keep XML parser from eating linefeed in element data ??
> At 9:56 AM -0500 1/10/03, Karl Waclawek wrote:
>
>
> >A not infrequent user problem with SAX processing is that
> >users don't expect character data that appear to be contiguous
> >to be reported through more than one call-back. I was suspecting
> >that this might be the case.
>
>
> Perhaps. However, expat is not a SAX parser.
Yes and no, more accurate would be: SAX-like. It is not too difficult
(and has been done) to wrap a fully functional SAX2 API, including
the extensions, around Expat.
> It might well have the
> same issues with text in multiple calls. I don't know. Again we need
> more details.
It has the same "issues", but this behaviour conforms to the SAX specs.
You are correct - we need more details.
Karl
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