SAX: finalising org.sax.xml.Parser

[Juergen Modre]

James Clark wrote:
> The following seem the reasonable combinations to me:
> 
1.)
> - Validate and process all external entities (if you're validating
> you've got to process all external entities).
> 
2.)
> - Don't validate and process external DTD and parameter entitities
> depending on the setting of standalone.
> 
3.)
> - Don't validate and process external DTD and parameter entities
> (irrespective of the setting of standalone).
> 
4.)
> - Don't validate and don't process external DTD and parameter entities
> (irrespective of the setting of standalone).

What about to have two methods
- setValidate(boolean validate)
- setStandalone(boolean standalone)
(and the corresponding getValidate, getStandalone methods as well)

Where the setStandalone _overrides_ the setting in the xml-document
itself, _if_ set.
If _not_ set
a.) standalone setting in the xml document itself
    -> use this setting
b.) no standalone setting in the xml document itself
    -> defaults to the default setting of
       the parser (= to 'no' like 2.9 in the XML spec says).

It should be possible to achieve the same combinations as above.


This would give the following combinations for the examples above:
[Default is for an XML processor: validate=false/standalone=no]

      setValidate                        setStandalone
1.)   true                               setting has no effect, will always go into external DTD &
PE
2.)   defaults or set to false           not set -> doesn't change setting of standalone in xml doc
3.)   defaults or set to false           set to false -> overrides to standalone 'no'
4.)   defaults or set to false           set to true  -> overrides to standalone 'yes'

Hope I got the table right :)


All the best
 Juergen

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