SAX2: Proposed alternative DTD interface

[MikeDacon at aol.com]

Hi David,

In a message dated 3/26/99 5:31:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
david at megginson.com writes:
> Here's another alternative for SAX2: forget about trying to report DTD 
>  declarations as events, and simply make the whole DTD available
>  through an interface with a Parser2.get() call.
>  

Although most DTDs will be short, it seems that the event-based 
interface will still be beneficial for large DTDs and small-footprint
applications that
cannot afford the memory of receiving the entire DTD implementation object.

I think the best alternative is to allow both options, and you just
don't set a handler if you want to ignore the events.

Which leads me back to my wish list for...

  try {
    Document doc = (Document)parser.get("http://xml.org/sax/props/dom");
  } catch (SAXNotSupportedException e) {
    // ...
  }

Which follows from the same logic.  Sometimes you want an 
event-based interface and sometimes you just want the resulting
object -- a Simple API for XML should cover both cases.

Best wishes,

 - Mike  { www.gosynergy.com }

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