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

Matthew Gertner (matthewg@poet.de)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:59:59 +0100

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Previous message: Eve L. Maler: "Re: The XML spec in XML: missing tags"
Maybe in reply to: David Megginson: "SAX: finalising org.sax.xml.Parser"

>It should have the following meaning:
>- setValidate(false);
> That the document/stream should be parsed for well-formedness.
> This should also be the default if nothing was set with the setValidate()
method.
>
>- setValidate(true);
> That the document/stream should also be validated during parsing.

How about a 2x2 matrix?

With DTD
setValidate(false) - checks for well-formedness, external subset is used
for entity and notation declarations, etc.
setValidate(true) - full validation

Without DTD
setValidate(false) - just checks for well-formedness
setValidate(true) - throws an exception

Matthew

Previous message: Eve L. Maler: "Re: The XML spec in XML: missing tags"
Maybe in reply to: David Megginson: "SAX: finalising org.sax.xml.Parser"