Re: SAX: Status Report

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:06:01 -0500


Alex Milowski writes:

> By "core events", do you mean that only a subset of the APIs would
> be available?

Actually, since that posting, I have pretty much decided that I agree
that we should have three event-handler interfaces instead of one:

org.xml.sax.EntityHandler
org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler
org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler

There is room for future interfaces to support authoring tools,
repositories, and other tools that require access to non-structural
lexical information like internal entity references and comments, but
these are out of scope for the first round (right now we're looking,
roughly, at an ESIS-level information set). We could also consider
adding an interface for DTD events after we've finished this round.

I don't know what finally happened with XAPI-J, but this is an
independent effort.

All the best,

David

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