Re: Entities (was [libxml++] libxml++ future)

[Dan Dennedy <dan dennedy org>]

No, I had a sudden change in my work and living arrangement. Then, my
main dev workstation has been acting crazy since the move. So, I am just
getting stable again.

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:43, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 20:17, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> > > I did some work over the weekend.
> > 
> > Excellent. You work fast.
> > 
> > >  I extended SaxParser with internal
> > > subset, entity declaration, and entity reference callbacks. In my 
> > > parser implementation, I also implemented the getEntity 
> > callback and 
> > > told SaxParser to use it, but I was curious about the difference 
> > > between getEntity and reference.
> > 
> > I can't find documentation on these callbacks. I think you 
> > should ask on the libxml list.
> > 
> > >  I was able to get everything working except for
> > > keeping entity references in tact--at least as far as xml 
> > > serialization is concerned.
> > 
> > Again, the libxml mailing list will be useful.
> > 
> > >  I need to anaylze the resultant node tree further to see
> > > if content is a list of text and entity reference nodes. Either, 
> > > libxml2, encodes entity references from "&ref;" to "&ref;" or I 
> > > can set resolveEntities=1 in the libxml2 parser context to make it 
> > > expand. The SAX reference callback is never called upon.
> > > 
> > > Also, I still need to subclass Node as Entity in order to prevent a 
> > > libxml2 xmlEntity* from being a part of the interface.
> 
> Dan, did you make any more progress on this?
> 
> Murray Cumming
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