SAX2: DeclHandler

[Rajiv Mordani]

I am not sure what the intent is of having IOException. I think
SAXException seems appropriate to me..

- Rajiv

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, David Megginson wrote:

> Here's the DeclHandler that we designed for SAX2alpha, with
> IOException replacing SAXException in the throws clauses:
> 
>   public interface DeclHandler
>   {
>     public void elementDecl (String name, String model) throws IOException;
>     public void attributeDecl (String eName, String name, String type,
> 			       String valueDefault, String value)
>       throws IOException;
>     public void internalEntityDecl (String name, String value)
>       throws IOException;
> 
>     public void externalEntityDecl (String name, String publicId,
> 				    String systemId)
>       throws IOException;
>   }
> 
> Notes:
> 
> 1. Unparsed entity and notation declarations are reported by the (now
>    confusingly-named) DTDHandler.  The distinction is that the XML 1.0 
>    REC requires parsers to report unparsed-entity and notation
>    declarations, but not other DTD-based declarations.
> 
> 2. The model argument in elementDecl is a normalized string
>    representation of a content model.  It's not ideal, but everyone
>    agreed last time that it was workable.
> 
> This interface seems hopelessly anachronistic, and I'm not willing to
> invest too much time in it -- after all, while DTDs are useful in
> themselves, the declarations should hardly form part of downstream
> processing -- but enough people want it that it's useful to include it
> as an optional feature.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> 
> David
> 
> -- 
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