SAX and DTDHandler

[David Megginson]

MikeDacon at aol.com writes:

 > My primary question is will SAX allow me to parse a DTD?  It
 > doesn't seem so.  DTDHandler only handles unparsed Entity
 > declarations (like binary data) and Notation declarations.  If it
 > is the case that SAX does not parse DTDs due to the fact that it
 > does not want to perform validation then why bother with the above
 > two cases?

SAX doesn't parse anything -- it's just an interface.  Some (most?)
Java-based XML parsers that implement the SAX interface do happen to
perform validation, but that's outside the scope of SAX 1.0 itself
(we're talking about fixing that for ModSAX).

SAX 1.0 provides the DTDHandler interface because XML 1.0 requires
processors to report notations and unparsed entities.


All the best,


David

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