SAX: Empty elements

[Geir Ove Gronmo]

While working on implementations using SAX I've noticed that there is no
way to know if an element is an empty element or not (e.g <Para/>). This
could perhaps be done using some kind of lookahead, but should that be
necessary?

Perhaps a change to the startElement method in the DocumentHandler
interface could fix this.

This is how the method is defined in the Draft Specification (1998-01-12):

public void startElement (String name, AttributeMap attributes) 
throws Exception 

Perhaps this should be something like:

public void startElement (String name, AttributeMap attributes, boolean
isempty)
throws Exception 

Best regards,
Geir O.


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