A Proposal for Refactoring SAX

[Balaji Ranjan]

hi,
 is it possible to access the DTD structure using DOM api.
thanks in advance
balaji ranjan

On Mon, 31 May 1999 jackandgina at mindspring.com wrote:

> I was initially frustrated with SAX's lack of support for accessing the DTD. Unlike the other
> XML efforts (XSchema, XSL, etc.) DTDs are not written as XML and it would be nice to access
> the DTD's internals as well as. I've come to understand you point about SAX being low level,
> but I'm still not sure I agree with it to the point of excluding DTD handling.
> 
> So I'm rolling my own library for DTDs similarly to the way SAX is meant for the actual xml
> documents.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jack Bolles
> ThoughtWorks, LLC
> 
> 
> David Megginson wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > By the way, how many SAX implementors have ever used the SAX 1.0
> > DTDHandler interface in a real-world installation?  The XML 1.0 spec
> > requires processors to report the information in that interface, but
> > I'd be very interested to know about actual usage patterns.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > David
> 
> 
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