Re: SAX an working of the Parser

[Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>]

Hi Jan,

"Zmitko, Jan" <Jan.Zmitko@ADBag.de> writes:

> can someone explain me how a parser works internally under the usage of =
> SAX. How can the parser detect, that the document is not well formed or =
> not valid. After each event respectively callback the parser doesn=B4t =
> know more about the element. How it=B4s possible to check that some =
> elements later the document is not closed correctly (for example)? Use a =
> parser temporaly an internal cache for a range of nodes, or the like?

A SAX parser normally uses a stack to keep track of elements that
have been opened but haven't been closed yet.

Boris

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