XML Conformance and DTD support in SAX

[David Megginson]

Don Park writes:

 > 2. It would be nice to have SAX provide more DTD information.
 > 
 > We could either have a separate DocumentTypeHandler or fire XML parsing
 > events for DTD as if it was an XML document being parsed.  Anyway, without
 > better support for DTD, DOM can be supported fully by SAX.  Perhaps we need
 > SAXDTD API to augment SAX?

I think that it is very likely that we will make a SAX level two some
other day, which might include a DocumentHandler and/or a DTDHandler
interface.  For now, however, we should probably try to stabilise what
we have -- the current SAX falls mostly within the range of features
already offered by existing parsers.


All the best,


David

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