At 11:45 AM -0800 3/7/04, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>As for filters and handlers, they should always initialize their
>state on startDocument(). That will prevent any errors due to reuse
>after attempting to parse a bad document.
In practice, not all parsers invoke startDocument before reporting a
fatalError. Currently it is not safe to assume either startDocument
or endDocument will be called. :-( At least one of these should be
absolutely guaranteed.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
