sax2: cdata, characters and ignorable whitespace

[Stefan Haustein]

David Megginson wrote:

> > void characters (int type, char [] characters, int start, int length);
> >
> > The value of the type parameter is one of
> > the integer constants IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE,
> > CHARACTERS, or CDATA.
> 
> It has two major disadvantages:
> 
> 1. Characters in CDATA really are normal characters in the XML
>    definition, and the fact that they're in a CDATA section is just
>    noise for most apps (and doesn't belong in the core
>    DocumentHandler).
> 
> 2. People who do care about CDATA sections might be unhappy to have
>    two consecutive CDATA sections collapsed into one.

I am not really convinced: 1. Reporting the CDATA int does not 
hurt anybody who is not interested. 2. People also might be unhappy
if they do not know if " or ' was used as quote for attributes. 

OK, I see that each option has several advantages and 
disadvantages. In the end, it's ok to me to take some extra effort if 
I want to write the "same" document back from sax2 events.  

Best regards

Stefan


-- 
Stefan Haustein
University of Dortmund
Computer Science VIII
www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de

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