XML Conformance and DTD support in SAX

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:29:31 -0500


Don Park writes:

> 2. It would be nice to have SAX provide more DTD information.
>
> We could either have a separate DocumentTypeHandler or fire XML parsing
> events for DTD as if it was an XML document being parsed. Anyway, without
> better support for DTD, DOM can be supported fully by SAX. Perhaps we need
> SAXDTD API to augment SAX?

I think that it is very likely that we will make a SAX level two some
other day, which might include a DocumentHandler and/or a DTDHandler
interface. For now, however, we should probably try to stabilise what
we have -- the current SAX falls mostly within the range of features
already offered by existing parsers.

All the best,

David

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