Re: SAX: finalising org.sax.xml.Parser

James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)
Sat, 07 Mar 1998 12:45:29 +0700


Juergen Modre wrote:

> Where the setStandalone _overrides_ the setting in the xml-document
> itself, _if_ set.
> If _not_ set
> a.) standalone setting in the xml document itself
> -> use this setting
> b.) no standalone setting in the xml document itself
> -> defaults to the default setting of
> the parser (= to 'no' like 2.9 in the XML spec says).

The only problem I see with that is that this would make it difficult to
have a getStandalone() method.

I would prefer a setStandalone(int) with values:

static final int STANDALONE_DOCUMENT = -1;
static final int STANDALONE_NO = 0;
static final int STANDALONE_YES = 1;

James