Re: [xml] release of libxml2-2.6.0beta3

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:14:18PM +0100, Graham Bennett wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:14:14PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Hum, this might be a misunderstanding, libxml2 new SAX2 shows defaulted
> > attributes only if they are effectively defaulted, i.e. they are not
> > in the input element stream but are marked as #FIXED in the DTD.
> > The previous SAX1 simply didn't reported them, and currently SAX2
> > report those but allows to ignore them by specifying how many attributes
> > were defaulted (and they show up as last items in the array passed in
> > the callback).
> >   If the attribute is in the input stream the value from the DTD is not
> > reported at that level.
> 
> Ok so as I understand it the new API will work as Expat does (I think).
> You get attributes that were explicitly set in the input stream first,
> then you get the ones which were defaulted in because of the DTD, and
> there is a count which tells you where the changeover point in the list
> is.

  Right, I don't know expat API (except the old one from 3 years ago)
but this is how the new SAX2 startElementNS() will work in the upcoming
releases (and in 2.6.0beta3).

> That is the kind of behaviour I would be looking for, I wasn't sure
> what the current 'SAX1' behavour was.

  It didn't report anything about defaulted attributes, that was done
in the tree build.

Daniel

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