Re: [xml] sax and entities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:11:09AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:48:02AM +0200, Petr Pajas wrote:
> > > SAX.startElement(a)
> > > SAX.getEntity(b)
> > > SAX.characters(B, 1)
> > > SAX.characters(B, 1)  <--- why?
> 
>   One when parsing the entity to make sure it's well formed the first time
> you use the entity.
>   One each time the entity must be delivered to user land.
> 

 One important point is to ask the parser to do entity substitution
if you provide your own SAX routines so it does as much of the work as
possible.

Daniel

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