Re: SAX compatibility & WF parsing questions

Juergen Modre (jmodre@edu.uni-klu.ac.at)
Mon, 08 Jun 1998 18:44:10 +0000

David thanks for the fast answer to verify my
SAX interface thoughts.
This way I want to gratulate you after the event for the good work
to initiate, drive and coordinate the development
of a standard XML event based interface. Great work!

Another hint to the DocumentHandler.characters javadoc header:
It says:
* Receive notification of character data.
*
* <p>The Parser will call this method to report each chunk of
* character data. SAX parsers may return all contiguous character
* data in a single chunk, or they may split it into several
* chunks; however, all of the characters in any single event
* must come from the same external entity, so that the Locator
* provides useful information.</p>

This event has also to reply the characters of
CDATA in a XML document, but this is not made explicit
in the above <p> and it would therefore be nice to add this
explicit in the <p>.
BTW: In my opinion it would be better to not return the CDATA
characters in this event as long as we don't have a separate
CDATA callback in the SAX interface specification.

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