Re: [xml-dev] Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again

At 23:45 27.2.2004, you wrote:
>Taking this argument to extremes, is it acceptable for a parser not to 
>call startDocument? Just to call fatalError? I have caught parsers doing 
>this, especially when the error is very early in the document; e.g. in the 
>byte order mark or the XML declaration.

I decided not to call startDocument/endDocument-pair when BOM or XML 
declaration or setting forced encoding fails. Reason for this was I wanted 
document's actual encoding to be known at the startDocument stage (as there 
isn't necessarily xml declaration present of course). Then again I'm 
talking about my SAX C library Parsifal which is far away from "official" 
SAX java implementations.



with respect,
Toni Uusitalo