SAX2 RFD: LexicalHandler draft v.1.1

[Gabe Beged-Dov]

David Megginson wrote:

> Lars Marius Garshol writes:
>
> The DOM's text-normalisation feature does *not* normalise CDATA
> sections, but I think that SAX's should.
>

Are there other cases (other than text-normalization ) in SAX2 that require the parser to
aggregate notifications and save state (other than that required for well-formedness
checking)? To say it a different way, are there other examples of SAX2 providing a high(er)
level service on behalf of the applications other than raw notification of lexical and
structural events?

My impression is that SAX(2) is intended to be minimalist. If a filter network can be
composed on top of SAX2 that provides the desired capabilities, then SAX2 doesn't need to
provide that capability. If there are multiple variations in how the desired capability can
be provided (as in the normalization example), then this is an even better indicator that it
should be left to a "policy" decision at a high layer.

Maybe normalization is a good candidate for an example filter network. The fact that it would
need to be configureable (concerning CDATA handling) might make it a more useful pedagogical
aid.


Gabe Beged-Dov
www.jfinity.com



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