A Proposal for Refactoring SAX

[David Megginson]

jackandgina at mindspring.com writes:

 > 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.

That's a great idea, and SAX2 will support such extensions itself, if
you want.  I should mention, however, that we have discussed adding
some further DTD support to SAX2 in the form of optional handlers set
using the SAX2 setProperty() method.


All the best,


David

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